How London Responded to Beijing in the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony Fan Yang / University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A consideration of London’s 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony alongside Beijing’s 2008 Ceremony.
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Satellite TV Smackdown: Viacom vs. DirecTV
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Stephen Tropiano examines the showdown between Viacom and DirecTV.
Read more“Choice Fatigue,” Community and the Mutations of Television
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
An Australian scholar relates his experience of “choice fatigue” while visiting and viewing cable programming in the United States, and examines whether expanded choice limits the role of television in communities and nations.
Read moreLa televisión cultural mexicana
by: Florence Toussaint / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Aunque la televisión cultural permanece en distintos lugares, los vaivenes de la política la han mantenido
en un permanente desasosiego. / Although cultural television survives in certain places, inconsistent
policies have left it in a permanent state of anxiety.
La televisión mexicana y la transformación del poder en México en el siglo XXI
by: Javier Esteinou Madrid / Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco
Entramos en la fase histórica de vivir bajo el imperio
del nuevo poder informal de los medios de difusión colectivos. / We are entering a new historical phase in which we live under the empire of the new informal power of collective mass media.
La semiótica de la televisión en América Latina: problemáticas y perspectivas metodológicas
by: Alfredo Cid Jurado / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Mexico City
El futuro de la semiótica aplicada a la televisión latinoamericana, y cómo puede responder a las demandas sobre el estudio profundo del rol social que juega la televisión en el mundo de habla hispana. / The future of semiotics and the study of Latin American Television, and the ways it may respond to the demands for a deeper study of the social role that television plays in the Spanish speaking world.
Região, Raça, e Clase Social: Recepcão de TV na Salvador, Bahia
by: Joe Straubhaar / University of Texas at Austin
O mito de democrácia racial no Brasil posiciona o pensamento crítico sobre os textos de televisão em termos de classe, mas entrevistas em Salvador, Bahia, Brasil, mostra uma tendência entre algumas pessoas de pensar em termos raciais e criticos. / A widespread myth of racial democracy in Brazil tends to position critical thinking about television texts in terms of class, but interviews in Salvador, Bahia show an emerging tendency among some to think in more critical racial terms.
Watching TV Without Pity
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.
Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
Subcultures become pop cultures and today’s underground emerges as tomorrow’s mainstream.
Brand Loyalty vs. show loyalty, the strange case of Virgin vs. Sky
by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
Caught in between disputing media cable providers, audiences find alternative ways to circumvent the
media’s economically driven programming strategies.
Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why is television my favourite medium, moreso than cinema, radio, even than books? Why does art make me so angry, television so joyful?
TiVoing Childhood
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?