All I Want for Christmas is Some Cultural Policy in the Public Interest
The FCC has new plans to consolidate media ownership, but who’s talking about it?
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A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
The FCC has new plans to consolidate media ownership, but who’s talking about it?
Read moreRelationships between depicting “surfing” in television shows and surfing through the Internet and TV.
Read moreDTV might be the most exciting television advance since the transistor, but it carries with it important implications for democratic communication.
Read moreA reconsideration of the universality of flatulence-based humor.
Read moreA&E’s reality series Dog: The Bounty Hunter presents intersections of crime, religious faith, and branding.
Read moreThe slacker heroes of Chuck and Psych may have more in common than would first appear.
Read moreThe screen’s ubiquitous presence in the modern world has transformed our lives from how we interact to the way we move. In this transformation have we all become sitting ducks?
Read moreGiven the ubiquity of sports commentary on television, there must be some perceived purpose behind it. But what might that purpose be?
“Guy-Coms” are making juvenile mascuinity hegemonic in U.S. culture.
Read moreCanadian (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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Why The Wire and Friday Night Lights are so fundamentally different from Freedom Writers and We Are Marshall–and why that matters.
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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