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In selecting Sharpton to anchor MSNBC clearly aims to challenge its main competitor, Fox News, and to cultivate brand visibility among liberal audiences, especially African Americans.

A consideration of the complexities of affect in televisual representations.

How contemporary pirate radio may be changing media studies definitions of “alternative media” and “counter-publics” in a particularly fragmented social and political climate.

A look at how undersea media cables underscore the materiality of infrastructure, affect natural ecologies, cultural groups and economies, and are impacted by trends in media production and consumption on a global scale.

Warner analyzes the strategies that guilds and its underrepresented membership deploy to circumvent institutionalized racial barriers while paradoxically highlighting the industrial logic of exclusion.

A look at the continuing convergence of games, TV, and the web.

Piracy suits in the realm of pornography.

Faye Davies asks: how can we use cultural theory to make sense of shows whose success is owed to graphic bodily investigations?

Perhaps the curious failure of the Undercovers highlights our own failure to see blackness in all its diversity. More importantly it highlights the effects of an unwillingness to produce diverse representations of blackness in media with black Americans being complicit in that failure.

A consideration of amateur videos produced during the Libyan Revolution and the broader limitations of online distribution and accessibility.