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Our Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara

Baker discusses hope and despair in the face of climate crisis as manifest in science fiction media narratives, focusing on Pixar’s WALL-E (2008), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita’s Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 (2019).

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Black Twitter is Dead… But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina

Dr. Jabari Evans muses on Black Twitter and how its culture might continue after its demise.

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Love, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Dr. Cait McKinney reflects on the heteronormativity of popular discourse on Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots.

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Chicago 1968 and the Kaleidoscopic Mosaic of the 1960s TV News Experience
Michael Socolow / University of Maine

Dr. Michael Socolow recounts how television coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago ignited discussion about the accuracy of television reporting, in addition to raising questions about how viewers interpret TV news.

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Viewing Women Readers: Digital Culture and Feminist Close Reading
Michele White / Tulane University

Dr. Michele White shows how feminist forms of close reading are a productive method for studying digital media and culture.

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Black Zen Masters in the Dojo of Reality Television

January 21, 2005 L.S. Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz 3 comments

by: L.S.Kim / University of California, Santa Cruz
Typically in reality television, the host is white – famous examples include Jeff Probst in Survivor, Ryan Seacrest in American Idol, and Regis Philbin in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? whose through-the-roof ratings jump-started the reality programming watershed. But in America’s Next Top Model, The Road to Stardom, and Pimp My Ride, the hosts are African American and already stars.

Rethinking the Digital Age

January 21, 2005 Faye Ginsburg / NYU 2 comments

by: Faye Ginsburg / New York University
It is 2005 and the term “The Digital Age” is as naturalized for many as a temporal marking of the dominance of a certain kind of technological regime (“the digital”) as is the “Paleolithic’s” association with certain kinds of stone tools.

Women Watching Sports

January 7, 2005 Janet Staiger / University of Texas-Austin 7 comments

by: Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
I knew something had changed when I called my then-mid-70-year-old mom in Omaha several years ago on a Saturday afternoon before Christmas to ask her about clothing sizes for gifts and she responded: “I can’t talk now. Texas is beating Nebraska for the Big XII Championship.”

Going Through the Paces

January 7, 2005 Mimi White / Northwestern University 2 comments

by: Mimi White / Northwestern University
I have been thinking about the pace of television, and wondering if I even know what the pace of television is.

TV Legal Drama Speaks to U.S. Citizens

January 7, 2005 Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona 3 comments

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
In the early 1970s, Dirty Harry famously took on the issue of constitutional rights for US citizens suspected of crimes. Clint Eastwood’s cop movie launched the popular narrative enigma that would influence decades of television legal drama . . .

The Boob Tube

January 7, 2005 Heather Hendershot / Queens College 12 comments

by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College CUNY
“It’s like Jell-O on springs!” Jack Lemmon declares as he ogles Marilyn Monroe’s fleshy derriere in Some Like It Hot (1959). Lemmon himself is in drag, and watching this film recently for the umpteenth time, I am struck again by its strange combination of heterosexual prurience and queer exuberance. I am also struck by Monroe’s plumpness.

Media Left Out?

January 7, 2005 Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont 3 comments

by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Never has the need for media reform been more obvious, more urgent, or — judging by everything from Moveon.org surveys to downloads of the Jon Stewart Crossfire clip — more popular.

Right Turn: Talk TV and Contemporary Politics

January 7, 2005 Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner / UCLA 5 comments

by: Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner
Talk television has become increasingly political in the past years.

Taming the Global on Italian Television

January 7, 2005 Michela Ardizzoni / University of Colorado - Boulder One comment

by: Michela Ardizzoni / Indiana University
The famous Dutch television producer, Endemol, will probably go down in the annals of history as a catalyst of standardized television programming across the globe.

Why Fox News is a Good Thing

December 17, 2004 Toby Miller / University of California, Riverside 12 comments

by: Toby Miller / University of California, Riverside
A closer look at the supposed differences between Fox News and its cable news competitors.

Funny Politics

December 17, 2004 Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University, UK One comment

by: Jim McGuigan / Loughborough University
It is commonplace to observe that television, like everything else, is increasingly global these days. What is happening on the other side of the world is shown and commented upon instantaneously in news programming.

Fairness Doctrine Now! Will it really hush Rush?

December 17, 2004 Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College 3 comments

by: Frederick Wasser / Brooklyn College
We cannot blame this one on the media. There was no spin, no agenda setting, and no spiral of silence powerful enough to excuse the electorate.

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Our Future is Garbage: Rejecting Climate Despair in Speculative Science Fiction
R Baker / University of California, Santa Barbara

Black Twitter is Dead… But Its Spirit Will Live On
Jabari Evans / University of South Carolina

Love, Death, and AI
Cait McKinney / SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Chicago 1968 and the Kaleidoscopic Mosaic of the 1960s TV News Experience
Michael Socolow / University of Maine

Viewing Women Readers: Digital Culture and Feminist Close Reading
Michele White / Tulane University