Category: 2.02

by: Shana Heinricy, Matt Payne, and Angela McManaman
Who is the “we” in those ubiquitous [Adult Swim] promos?

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ”˜disappointment’ and ”˜the teaching of disgust’ the ”˜core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK
How can a public network like the BBC survive in the age of privatization?

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
How does our understanding of television change when we replace the idea of “flow” with “flotsam”?

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
Wasser considers a hypothesis of FCC commissioner Michael Copps: is there a relationship between media deregulation and vulgar programming?

by: Brian L. Ott / Colorado State University
What is appealing about Jeff Foxworthy?

by: Sharon Ross / Columbia College Chicago
A consideration of the pleasure of unraveling contemporary television’s “meaningful mysteries.”