A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
In this article, Jayson Harsin reconsiders the definition of news in response to the emergence of the rumor bomb and convergence culture.
Read moreA critical examination of “upfronts,” the photographs distributed by television studios to promote new shows. Does the television industry promote an agenda through imagery that maintains positions of power, or does it covertly use images to give primacy to a particular group of people?
Read moreA look at the visions of blue-collar masculinity provided by reality TV.
Read moreThe concept of dirt is used as a way to explore significant class taboos in the Discovery Channel series, Dirty Jobs. King’s article examines the politics behind the production of this program.
Read moreAn examination of the potential positive and negative roles of video in the lives of LGBTQ youth, and a call to action for members of the critical scholar community.
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