Queering Justin
by: Hector Amaya / Southwestern University
How does the Justin character on Ugly Betty factor into and complicate debates about queer representations on television?
Category: Featured Articles
Why Do I Love Television So Very Much?
by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology
Why is television my favourite medium, moreso than cinema, radio, even than books? Why does art make me so angry, television so joyful?
Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Life and Times of the CBC
by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Little Mosque on the Prairie and a discussion of the success of the the CBC Canadian public broadcaster system.
Sex, Love, Television – Part 1
by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California
What draws American viewers to Desperate Housewives, a show about infidelity, teenage promiscuity, scandal, secrecy, murder and deceit?
Pink Slips for Booth Babes?: No Way! Re-train and Re-skill!
by: Nina B. Huntemann / Suffolk University
The enduring question of women and gaming finds one possible answer in the booth babe.
The Limits of the Cellular Imaginary: iPhone and the Snuff Film
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University
Though Saddam Hussein and Steve Jobs were on public display for quite different purposes, and on quite different stages, they were inevitably bound together by certain cultural logics of new media.
The Best 10 Minutes of Television?… Ever?
by: Stephen Harrington / Queensland University of Technology
The Office – What is all the fuss about? What is it that made the show so good in the first place?
Borat In (Next To!) The Balkans
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
For those in the former Yugoslavia, Borat offers a rich field of representations to express and explore their self-definitions as emerging participants in Western culture and social practices.
Read moreMicro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Sign-Off
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
For his final column, Dan Leopard examines the television sign off.
Passion is No Ordinary Word
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
Flow, the conference, worked for the same reason that the online journal does: it simply doesn’t feel careerist in any conventional way, shape or form.
Studio 60 and the Limits of Self-Critique
by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip promises a “behind the screens” look into the television industry. Here viewers sit ringside in the battle between art and commerce, as a team of actors, writers, and producers work frantically to broadcast ninety minutes of Saturday-Night-Live-style sketch comedy each week.
The YouTube Community
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
While the idealization of YouTube as a self-organizing, radically democratic community for sharing clip culture certainly helped to buffer what could be considered an act of selling “the community” as property to corporate giant Google, the image of YouTube as a revolutionary alternative to corporate media culture has nevertheless been a powerful one.