Category: Lead Story

Steven Boyer explores the ways in which television is being changed by gaming consoles. Boyer examines the ways television is remaining the same, but asserts that it’s the way we’re watching is that is changing.

Wheeler Winston Dixon explores the ramifications of Netlix’s move to video streaming on brick and mortar video stores.

A discussion of the role of social media in producing public exhibition spaces for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

Hollis Griffin critiques the neoliberal academy’s influence on media scholarship.

Randall Livingstone challenges the myth behind the “Get a Mac” ads.

Harsin offers perspective on current scholarship about political unrest in Africa by offering a case study of media framing of the French “banlieue” riots of 2005.

The “independent” film Never Say Never, the initial production of Insurge Pictures, signals the difficulties faced by independent filmmakers attempting to break into the film industry.

Aymar Jean Christian dissects what’s wrong with everyone’s favorite video channel.

Tasker examines the linkage between the stylized traditions of the Gothic and the crime genre.

The myriad controversies surrounding Wikileaks holds lessons about changing relations between new and old media forms and production; attention, circulation, media capital and celebrity; political economy and journalism; and even democracy and international relations.