A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A more critical lens is held up to the concept of “crowdsourcing,” dispelling several myths surrounding the role of the amateur in cultural and commercial production.
Read moreAn appraisal of AMC’s The Walking Dead and how the show participates in the zombie genre’s shift from B-grade schlock to “Quality TV” and mainstream Hollywood.
Read moreThis article, the second in an ongoing series, offers a critical examination of race in television networks’ “upfronts,” the photographs distributed to promote new shows. Does the television industry reinforce hegemony through the images used to promote these shows?
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreAn examination of the use of celebrity image in Burmese advertising.
Read more