Cybernetic TV

A reprint of Mark Andrejevic’s examination of interactive television.
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture

A reprint of Mark Andrejevic’s examination of interactive television.

A reprint of Brian L. Ott’s essay on cultural appropriation.
Anna Beatrice Scott / University of California, Riverside
The flash mob mentality and our perception of time.
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A reprint of Laurie Ouellette’s analysis of altruistic reality television.

A reprint of Toby Miller’s essay on televised intellectualism.

A reprint of a Flow piece in which Natalie Cannon, Zak Salih, and Angela Nemecek engage in a debate regarding the HBO program Carnivale.

A reprint of an essay by Henry Jenkins on Sarah Silverman that inspired the most comments in our publishing history.

Don Knotts: the embodiment of sex appeal?
Many of the films featured at this year’s Oscars — including Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men — feature a morally ambiguous conclusion in which the evil still lurks “out there.” What does this say about our contemporary social experience?
Read moreAn examination of the narrative strategy and effectiveness of the Chevy “Our Country. Our Truck.†ad campaign.
Read moreA consideration of the political uses of Aliens in America
Read moreA look at the ways audiences in Arab countries create mediated resistant narratives.
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