A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Richard Van Heertum considers the applicability of Marshall McLuhan’s global village, Guy Debord’s society of the spectacle, and Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra/simulacrum to the 2016 American presidential election.
Read moreby: John Corner / University of Liverpool
What does the Royal Navy’s recent hostage crisis in Iran say about television’s involvement in the conduct of war and conflict?
TV in the Season of Compassion Fatigue
by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
What, ultimately, drives the production and consumption of television disaster coverage?
Hurricane Spectacles and the Crisis of the Bush Presidency
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
(How) will the Bush image weather criticism leveled at his administration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?
I Love Lucy in the Sixties
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How are our televisual memories and self-perceptions challenged when we revisit the shows of our youth?
The Media and Death: The Case of Terri Schiavo and the Pope
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
Why does the “Culture of Life” movement reek of death?
Oscar Clips Clips; Audience Insight Dips
by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
The Oscars® telecast missed a chance to educate and inform.
