A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Julia Lesage reflects on a sense of “fickleness” brought about by new modes of consumption based on her own behavior reading literature on the iPad.
A consideration of how the iPad and other new media products facilitate on-screen reading and change the face of both academic research and leisure time.
A call to media scholars to begin open and productive conversation about how media are consumed, streamlined, archived, and pedagogically utilized.
Recent Burmese video footage prompts the question: How do we preserve and document revolution?
The visibility of botox on Damages leads the author to reflect on how cosmetic surgery appears on television and in public life, and why.
An analysis of FlashForward‘s techniques to keep the viewer engaged and even to inspire fan behavior in its audience.
Julia Lesage / University of Oregon
A look back on the presentation of torture in a 2005 episode of Criminal Intent
Analyzing the televisual presence of Cesar on The Dog Whisperer.
Uses the theory of Ricoeur to analyze HGTV’s House Hunters
