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An exploration of audience response to satire and the “ridiculous” through a video about a banana.

The disastrous flooding in Queensland, AU, calls into question the way in which television engages with local communities during moments of crisis.

A more critical lens is held up to the concept of “crowdsourcing,” dispelling several myths surrounding the role of the amateur in cultural and commercial production.

An appraisal of AMC’s The Walking Dead and how the show participates in the zombie genre’s shift from B-grade schlock to “Quality TV” and mainstream Hollywood.

This article, the second in an ongoing series, offers a critical examination of race in television networks’ “upfronts,” the photographs distributed to promote new shows. Does the television industry reinforce hegemony through the images used to promote these shows?

An examination of the use of celebrity image in Burmese advertising.

What we study and how we learn to talk about it is productive of our identities along mostly covert dimensions of power. How do scholars distinguish themselves from the mainstream critics?

The application of fandom and its resources is not the same in all cultures, and African fans might not be recognized as legitimate fans. The point of this piece is to demonstrate that there is a unifying figure of American domination of mass culture.

A scholar argues that embracing an “overly confessional” approach to his academic writing is integral to the fidelity of his research.