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by: Gareth Palmer / University of Salford
Britain’s Jeremy Kyle demonstrates why television’s need to maximize emotional performances and responses means that producers invest in those most likely to offer confessional behaviour for public consumption.

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.

by: Joan Hawkins / Indiana University, Bloomington

The fact that rural dish users reside in the country whose culture—without the dish—is so frequently unavailable to them is one of the things we need to
take into account when we discuss audience.

by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar

YouTube and other video on demand services are changing the terms of television programming and distribution, as well as control and access over
televisual material.

by: Olivier Tchouaffe / FLOW Staff

The recent media focus on former child soldiers from Africa serves to not only draw attention to the plight of similar youths, but make a compelling argument in favor of
pacifist politics.

by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
A YouTube video of a street theater performance by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) raises questions about the representations of the war in Iraq as mediated by both the mainstream media and the more participatory video sharing sites.

by: Alex Munt / Macquarie University
Munt explores Hollywood’s reaction to the popularity of YouTube and its emerging “Clip Culture”

by: Tim Gibson / George Mason University
What I felt in my bones when I watched this particular episode of Lost was a yearning for the collective life of the castaways. Whatever else happens, these people are in it together. When times are bad, they are bad for everyone. When times are good—like when Hurley liberates the
hatch’s food—they’re good for one and all alike.

by: Judith Halberstam / University of Southern California

New York Times column “Modern Love” records the ups
and downs, the byroads and hidden paths of contemporary romance for urban, mostly white, mostly heterosexual men and women.