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Total Information Awareness – The Media Version

July 7, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 2 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Commercial broadcasting has, from its inception, been about monitoring viewers; this is why the history of the ratings industry has become entwined with that of military and police surveillance.

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Strategic Liberalism and Media Reform

July 7, 2006 John McMurria / DePaul University One comment

by John McMurria / DePaul University
Are we in for more of the same deregulatory policies and neoliberal principles that informed the 1996 Telecommunications Act?

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Lost Generation

July 7, 2006 Amanda D. Lotz / University of Michigan 2 comments

by Amanda Lotz / University of Michigan
How today’s network television depicts (or fails to depict) the changing lives of Generation X.

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Honey, We’re Killing the Kids

July 7, 2006 Laurie Ouelette / University of Minnesota 2 comments

by: Laurie Ouellette / University of Minnesota
How does the revitalization of social work through television politicize personal choice and parental responsibility? And, what do the televisual excesses represented on Honey We’re Killing the Kids reveal about the politics of desire?

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Darkness and Light: The Changing Mood of the CSI Franchise

July 7, 2006 Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar 2 comments

by: Nichola Dobson / Independent Scholar
A closer look at changes in the stylistic conventions of the CSI franchise due to audience reaction.

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The Dynamics of Political Re-Branding

July 7, 2006 John Corner / University of Liverpool 2 comments

by: John Corner / University of Liverpool
The impact of commercial marketing techniques in the political landscape.

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Family, Fate and the Finale of Will and Grace

July 7, 2006 Kathleen Battles & Wendy Hilton-Morrow / Denison University and Augustana College 5 comments

by: Kathleen Battles / Denison University and Wendy Hilton-Morrow / Augustana College
On the limitations and possibilities of imagining families in a non-heteronormative way in the finale of Will & Grace.

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