A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
In the final installment of their “Wicked Games” series, Matthew Payne and Peter Alilunas take a look the infamous Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ ‘Hot Coffee’ mod, which made sex scenarios visible in the game and elicited regulatory retaliation.
Read more“Why 2008 Won’t Be Like 1984:” Viral Videos and Presidential Politics
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
How will voter-created viral videos shape the mediascape of the forthcoming 2008 US Presidential Election?.
by: Heather Hendershot / Queens College
How zombies are used to make potent anti-war statements.
War, “Incendiary Media,” and International Law (Part III)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The conclusion of a series on media intervention, this column questions the ways that media intervention and re-development has been practiced in post-conflict Iraq.
We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Making sense of the supernatural on prime-time.
Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Sham or not, The Daily Show remains deeply committed to its mission: “truthiness.”
War, “Incendiary Media,” and International Law (Part II)
by: John Nguyet Erni / City University of Hong Kong
The second of a three part series on media and warfare from a human rights perspective, this column explores the human rights norms that justify the legality of media intervention.
The Worst Happened
by: Cynthia Fuchs / George Mason University
While remaining largely unnoticed, Discovery Times’ Off to War provides a much needed perspective on the war in Iraq.
Editorial: Mommy, Where do Presidents Come From?
by: Kristen Grant / Flow Staff
Scrape off the generous slathering of Velveeta and Commander in Chief reveals itself to be less about who we want the president to be than what we want them to be.
Feeling Blue: Katrina, The South, and The Nation
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A consideration of regional politics in Katrina coverage.
Desperate Citizens
by: John McMurria / DePaul University
Extreme Makeover Home Edition contestants are portrayed as good and deserving citizens who are the victims of misfortunes beyond their control. However, while EMHE helps these deserving citizens, the corporate sponsored show fails to recognize the irony inherent in the fact that it is these very corporations that contribute to these problems in the first place.
Hurricane Spectacles and the Crisis of the Bush Presidency
by: Douglas Kellner / UCLA
(How) will the Bush image weather criticism leveled at his administration in the wake of Hurricane Katrina?