How to become a TV star
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
A consideration of cultural importance of the Logies, Australia’s Emmys.
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How to become a TV star
Television studies, new media, and the divided curriculum
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
How the bifurcation between “old” and “new” media continues to (mis)inform teaching in universities.
Read moreMedia, community, and zones of consumption
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
Graeme Turner interrogrates how new media creates a new type of community.
Read more‘Liveness’ and ‘Sharedness’ Outside the Box
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
Graeme Turner asks, “What exactly is television for the multi-platform user?”
Read moreDisaster Zones and the Performance of Television
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
The disastrous flooding in Queensland, AU, calls into question the way in which television engages with local communities during moments of crisis.
Read more“Choice Fatigue,” Community and the Mutations of Television
Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
An Australian scholar relates his experience of “choice fatigue” while visiting and viewing cable programming in the United States, and examines whether expanded choice limits the role of television in communities and nations.
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Read more3 Ways that BTS and its Fans are Redefining Liveness
Michelle Cho / McGill University
Michelle Cho explores the impact of multi-platform fan engagement on television consumption through K-pop boy band BTS’s fans are expanding and redefining mediated liveness.
Read moreThe “Reality” of Contemporary Stardom
Erin Meyers / Oakland University
Focusing on the stars of docu-soap style programs, this article considers the reality participant’s entrance into celebrity culture.
Read morePeople I Want to Know: Twitter, Celebrity and Social Connection
Liz Ellcessor / University of Wisconsin – Madison
Not So Ugly: Local Production, Global Franchise, Discursive Femininities, and the Ugly Betty Phenomenon
by: Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
Examining the various incarnations of Columbia’s telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea and the ways in which various countries across the world have adopted and translated the show.
The Blurring of Fame and Talent: Female Celebrity and the Glossy Gossip Sector
Rebecca Feasey / Bath Spa University
The blurred boundaries between labor, performance, fame, and talent in celebrity rags.
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