A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Carol Vernallis investigates the state of campaign music in the 2016 Presidential election, asking why is there so little musically or audiovisually rich content this cycle?
Casey McCormick analyzes the relationship of the season finale cliffhanger to the economic, formal, and fandom elements of television, focusing in particular on the season 6 finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Eric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.
Germaine Halegoua explores the under-investigated networks within infrastructure studies: networks of “always off” connection that are purposefully constructed as dark or inactive.
Greg Clinton considers apocalyptic futures, survivalism, and “crazy preppers” as responses to changing social mores through 10 Cloverfield‘s representation of bunkers as fortified domestic spaces.
Roopali Mukherjee discusses racial (in)visibility and the modern technical malfunctions that misidentify people of color while organizing and reifying powerful epidermal schema of differentiation and discrimination.
