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Youth, representation, and the contemporary history of Canadian TV

October 27, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University Leave a comment

Canadian (over)production of teen TV says something about the role Canada plays in the global TV market, teaching us about the space where technological innovation and the production of national cultures and voices intersect.

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Institutions That Fail, Narratives That Succeed:
Television’s Community Realism Versus Cinema’s Neo-Liberal Hope

October 27, 2007 Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University 12 comments


Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.

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“A-loan A-gain:”
In the Shadows of Lifestyle Television

October 27, 2007 Gareth Palmer / University of Salford 3 comments

An look at daytime loan commercials reveals that the home we are encouraged to love and cherish more than ever has shaky foundations.

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Urban Fortunes:
Television, Gentrification, and the American City

October 12, 2007 Tim Gibson / George Mason University 7 comments

In addition to presenting viewers with images of urban mayhem, American television now offers a new vision of the city as a bourgeois playground—a bright-lights stage upon which popular fantasies of wealth, power, and distinction can be indulged. Yet, this said, there is still something about this recent celebration of the gentrified city that rankles.

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White Channels

October 12, 2007 Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington 3 comments

The most striking change on white supremacist websites involves mediacasts and post links to other media.

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Getting the Big Picture on Television on the Internet

September 28, 2007 Ray Cha / Independent Scholar 6 comments

As television continues its transfer over to the digital and networked existence, the Internet will be playing an essential part of that process. Ensuring fair and equitable access will require understanding the nature of the Internet–which is both decentralizing and centrifugal.

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