Post Racialism, Romance, and The Real World D.C.
Jon Kraszewski / Seton Hall University
A look at the politics of race in an interracial romance on The Real World, D.C.
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From “Play to Display”: Parkour as Media-Mimetics, or Nature Reclamation?
Matthew Ferrari / University of Massachusetts – Amherst
2010 Census and Grassroots Communities: Composing a Visual Heritage in the Digital Age
Konrad Ng / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Confronting the issues and rhetoric prevalent in media concerning the shifting demographics to be made evident by the 2010 census.
Read moreJamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: Serving Up A Side of Individual Blame
Melissa Click / University of Missouri, Columbia
A look at why one of TV’s hottest chefs failed in his American food revolution.
Melissa Click / University of Missouri, Columbia
Sweatin’ Out the Shame
Lucas Hilderbrand / University of California, Irvine
A look at classic VHS workout tapes.
Read moreOh My, What Big Ambitions You Have!: ABC’s 1965 Revision of “Little Red Riding Hood”
Quinn Miller / Hampshire College
An examination of “The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood—or Oh Wolf, Poor Wolf” and its role in the camp sensibility emerging within U.S. media culture in the mid-1960s.
Read moreIntroduction to Oogabooga Studies
David Parry / University of Texas, Dallas
As a follow-up to discussions of the “new” and “media” aspects of “new media” studies, Parry proposes the name “Oogabooga Studies” to ameliorate the overuse of the phrase “new media.”
Read moreThe Return of the Digital Native: Interfaces, access, and racial difference in District 9
Kevin Hamilton & Lisa Nakamura / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
An analysis of “digital natives” and similar representations within science fiction films.
Read moreTiger! Tiger! Burning Bright
David L. Andrews / University of Maryland
A look at the (crumbling) star identity of Tiger Woods.
Read moreBing: An Illiterate Cure for Search Overload
Daren C. Brabham and
Annie Brabham / University of Utah
A consideration of how the search engine Bing “decides” for its users.
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Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
A consideration of theoretical applications to the apparatus of television against the presence of cable signal frequency
Meghan Sutherland / Oklahoma State University
‘Wanna be on top?’: America’s Next Top Model and evaluating presentational performance as televisual skill
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University
A comparison of the performance styles of American and Australian ‘Top Model’ hosts Tyra Banks and Johdi Meares.
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