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TV Finales: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Casey J. McCormick / McGill University

January 28, 2017 Casey McCormick / McGill University 2 comments

Casey McCormick uses the Twitter reaction to the end of the Obama administration as a jumping off point to explain why finales matter and how audiences express an ambivalence regarding the ends of longform televisual storytelling.

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Interrogating Female Selfhood, Styled Identity Performance, and Visuality in Gossip Girl
Meg Hansen / Dartmouth College

January 23, 2017 Meg Hansen / Dartmouth College One comment

Meg Hansen describes the “styled identity” and its articulation in Gossip Girl (2007-2012), demonstrating the dialogic between aesthetics and female identities, self-presentation and selfhood, in the specular economies of postmodern media and culture.

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Ghostbusters, Queef Jokes, and a Woman’s Right to Make Noise
Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte

January 22, 2017 Alexis Carreiro / Queens University of Charlotte 7 comments

Alexis Carreiro explores Ghostbusters‘s (2016) deployment of a queef joke in relation to the gendered history of fart jokes and the feminist implications of and social strictures against women making noise, both bodily and politically.

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Make Room for Alexa
Germaine Halegoua / University of Kansas

January 22, 2017 Germaine Halegoua / University of Michigan One comment

Germaine Halegoua considers how virtual assistants like Alexa represent a shift from the imagination of the smart home as a space of ambient screens to ambient interfaces for continual background listening.

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