1001 Arabian Plights: On Persistent Media Denigration
A critical look at the ways in which Arabs and Muslims are represented in American media.
Pardon the Competition: ESPN Turns Sports Talk Into a Game
How commentary is the new competition on ESPN’s most popular sports talk shows.
From Irrelevance to On-Demand: Changing Models of Dissemination
Innovative Internet distribution models in music and television strike back against Big Media hegemony.
What (Public?) Television Was Meant To Be?
PBS, like television, is not a singular object, and the image it constructs of what television is, and what PBS is, is multiplicitous and sometimes contradictory.
Screen Memories: The Pioneers of Television
Why do serialized histories of television tend to leave out the most interesting aspects of TV flow?
Therapy is Complicated: HBO’s Foray into Modular Storytelling with In Treatment
Based on a hit Israeli TV show, HBO’s In Treatment, about a therapist and his patients, invites viewers to mix and match their own viewing schedules.
Read moreRevisitations and Constant Auditions: The Politics of Placing People
How do we reward and protect creative labor while we insist on stripping it from the bodies that produce it?
Read moreWhere Babies Really Come From…
A Baby Story, it would seem, has become a present-day ritual for at least some segments of the expectant-parent population in the U.S.
The Anachronism of Television Subscription Packages
If television viewers are not able to use that medium to gain access to the content they want when they want it, then the medium itself can only continue to make itself an increasingly irrelevant part of that viewer’s media lifestyle.
Read moreTelevision Conceptions: Introduction to “Re/Producing Cult TV: The Battlestar Galactica Issue”
How has the cult television program Battlestar Galactica been conceived, generated, produced, and reproduced? An introduction to the questions of textuality and technology, history and futuricity, production and reception, love and aggression that are addressed in this special issue.
Read moreIs it Religion or is it Entertainment?
Exploring the blur between the sacred and the secular in current media.
Read moreSignal to Noise: The Paradoxes of History and Technology in Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica remixes pertinent questions and concerns about the war on terror with varying degrees of verisimilitude and with varying degrees of predictability.
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