A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Josh Stenger considers how fan studies is uniquely positioned to help colleges and universities teach students how to learn.
Kelly Kessler analyzes the failed promise of Fox’s Rent Live and the limitations of televised theater without liveness and risk.
Sarah Florini argues that as we consider the future of a changing digital landscape, we must critically engage with Black users who often anticipate, envision and develop practices ahead of major platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
Alison Harvey compares the appeal of slow and mundane Terrace House to the idle video game genre. She explores audiences’ move away from media’s demands of hyper-competitivity and self-actualization and suggests mainstream gaming increasingly includes pockets of idleness in its design.
In Part Two of his Three Part series on HBO’s The Deuce, Matthew Tchepikova-Treon examines the role of disco within the context of class and late 1970s New York City.
