Mobile Music South of the Border
Patrick Burkart and Christopher Joseph Westgate / Texas A&M
A discussion of the infrastructure behind the Mexican mobile music industry
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Fine Intentions and Dire Delusions: The Simulated Ethos of the Greenhouse Effect
Ingrid Hoofd/National University of Singapore
An analysis of speed-elitist capitalism and the self-contradictory nature of global warming policy.
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Ethan Thompson / Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
A look at displaced television viewing and its effects on our understanding of the medium.
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Jonathan Nichols-Pethick / DePauw University
Consideration of the opportunities available to local television production and consumption in a world of new technologies and new economies.
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Ted Friedman / Georgia State University – Atlanta
Friedman applies the theoretical work of Carl Jung to the popular television drama Lost.
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by Michela Ardizzoni/ University of Colorado Boulder
Margaret Cho’s Televisual Trajectory: From All-American Girl to The Cho Show
Jane Park / University of Sydney, Australia
Follows Margaret Cho’s star trajectory from All-American Girl to The Cho Show.
Read moreYou’re Fired! Reflecting the Economic Crisis in the Business Entertainment Format
Lisa W. Kelly /University of Glasgow
An exploration of business-minded television shows and the recent economic climate.
Read moreThe End
Cynthia Chris / College of Staten Island, CUNY
How should a TV series end? A look at the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica and ER.
Read moreI’m a Loser, Baby
Christine Quail / McMaster University
An exploration of the value contemporary audiences place on the losers of competitive reality television shows.
Read moreHouse, FB: A Consideration of Convergence Marketing
Jacqueline Vickery / Flow Staff
Looking at House and Facebook as an example of convergence marketing.
Read moreWhale Wars: A Deeper Shade of Green on the Public Screen
Chris Russill / University of Minnesota
A look at Animal Planets’s Whale Wars and the sensational media tactics involved.
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