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Author: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa

Cybernetic TV

March 27, 2008 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa One comment


A reprint of Mark Andrejevic’s examination of interactive television.

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Watching TV Without Pity

April 5, 2007 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

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.

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Reality TV Is Undemocratic

September 22, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 9 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
In its broadest sense, the term “democratic” is invoked to indicate that the public has been given a choice of some sort, or even more generally that it has been provided with the opportunity to “participate.” Are the limited forms of engagement that Reality TV provides truly “democratic”?

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Total Information Awareness – The Media Version

July 7, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 2 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Commercial broadcasting has, from its inception, been about monitoring viewers; this is why the history of the ratings industry has become entwined with that of military and police surveillance.

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Life on Animal Planet

April 28, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 2 comments

By: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Animal Planet documentaries offer a disturbing mirror through which to view the pathologies of our current social reality.

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Watching TV Poker

February 24, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Andrejevic considers the cultural logic of the recent surge in televised poker tourneys.

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What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been

December 16, 2005 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa One comment

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?

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Cybernetic TV

October 21, 2005 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 2 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
An exploration of the ways in which “interactive” television “adjusts on the fly” to meet the needs of programmers and viewers.

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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

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13 Jan

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