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Awkward Conversations About Uncomfortable Laughter

March 13, 2008 Henry Jenkins / Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 comments

A reprint of an essay by Henry Jenkins on Sarah Silverman that inspired the most comments in our publishing history.

Signal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica

January 17, 2008 Melanie E.S. Kohnen / Georgia Institute of Technology 2 comments

Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.

Exogenesis: Mind Children and Cultured Images in Battlestar Galactica

December 19, 2007 Alanna Thain / McGill University 2 comments

As cultured images, Cylons both evoke and exceed biological and media technological reproduction alike, a viral infectious non-human form of reproduction.

Not Yo’ Momma’s Cyborg: Transformers Meet More Than Your Eye

July 19, 2007 Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside 6 comments

by: Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
Fully loaded, tricked out, ripped and raring for a fight, the movie Transformers (2007) provides an opportunity for processing human gesture across the mechanized object.
Can it be argued that those “robots in disguise” ™ are not Haraway’s cyborgs?

Glimpsing Utopia on Lost

June 7, 2007 Tim Gibson / George Mason University 5 comments

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
What I felt in my bones when I watched this particular episode of Lost was a yearning for the collective life of the castaways. Whatever else happens, these people are in it together. When times are bad, they are bad for everyone. When times are good—like when Hurley liberates the
hatch’s food—they’re good for one and all alike.

Watching TV Without Pity

April 5, 2007 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.

Getting Girls to Play: The Broadening of the Video Game Market

February 9, 2007 Suzanne Freyjadis-Chuberka / Independent Scholar 3 comments

by: Suzanne Freyjadis-Chuberka / Independent Scholar
Guitar Hero’s innovative gameplay appeals to casual and hardcore gamers alike–including the Frag Dolls!

The Wii-volution will not be Televised:
The XNA-cution of a Business Model

February 9, 2007 Casey O'Donnell / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5 comments

by: Casey O’Donnell / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
While Nintendo’s Wii has been causing a stir among gamers and the general public alike, Microsoft is fundamentally changing the way video games are created.

Mixing Mythology, Science and Fiction: The Sci-fi Genre in Indian Film and Television

December 1, 2006 Shanti Kumar / University of Texas 3 comments

by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
With a limited but growing pool of experienced talent that is increasingly becoming adept in the use of animation and special-effects technologies, the Indian animation industry is looking both inward and outward for business and creative opportunities.

Considering Flow

November 17, 2006 Doug Battema / Western New England College One comment

by: Doug Battema / Western New England College
The FLOW conference tackled many of TV scholars’ favorite topics, but other aspects of the medium, such as television advertising and sports programming, need to be examined with the same critical regimen we apply to narrative, fictional programming.