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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.

Hollis Griffin writes about Toddlers and Tiaras as a representation of economic anxiety.

Winston Wheeler Dixon wonders: what will happen to ownership when media content will cease to be material?

A discussion of amaranth, garden blogs, and affective gardening.

A look at changing body types in contemporary superhero cinema.

Ice Road Truckers’ manufactured collision of cultures, and how the politics of old colonialism continue to reverberate in the transnational tides of neoliberal capitalism.

Lokeilani Kaimana interrogates Christeene’s music video Bustin’ Brown’ as an example of dark camp.

Steven Boyer investigates the failure of Microsoft’s Primetime.

Alfred L. Martin, Jr., works toward a theory of compound otherness on television.