COVID-19 – Page 2

Plandemic and the Spread of Misinformation
Madison Hill / Independent Scholar

May 25, 2020 Madison Hill / Independent Scholar

Judy Mikovitz in Plandemic Misinformation has plagued the public consciousness since the beginning of the written word; however, contemporary fake news has the opportunity to be far more damaging than its historical predecessors. Access to a global information superhighway allows unreliable images, articles, and videos to be shared to millions of people in one instantaneous click. Over the past five […]

**OverFlow: It’s a Fing Lockdown: The Branding Responses of the UK’s Public Service Broadcasters
Melissa Morton / University of Edinburgh

May 23, 2020 Melissa Morton / University of Edinburgh

Melissa Morton explores how the UK’s public broadcasting channels have adapted their branding in response to the Covid-19 health crisis and discusses the implications of new viewing habits for the future of the UK’s public service broadcasters.

Air and Breath as Elemental Media, Masks, and Datasets
Aaron Tucker / York University

May 5, 2020 Aaron Tucker / York University

Vice President Mike Pence visits the Mayo Clinic. As Yiğit Soncul and Jussi Parikka contend in “Masks: The Face between Bodies and Networks,” masks have become particularly symbolically freighted, with recent imagery of their use emerging from the Australian wildfires, protest movements, and the COVID-19 global pandemic. The authors’ following exploration “argues that it is through contexts of immunity and […]

COVID-19 Credibility Memes
LaKesha N. Anderson / Johns Hopkins University

May 5, 2020 LaKesha N. Anderson / Johns Hopkins University

Meme featuring an “Anti-COVID-19 Smoothie” On April 24, 2020, social media responded to a comment made by US President Donald Trump during a press conference to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In that press conference, the president suggested that injecting disinfectants might be a potential cure for the illness. The White House issued transcript quotes the President as saying, “And then […]

COVID-19: Teaching Solidarity
Kit Hughes / Colorado State University

May 4, 2020 Kit Hughes / Colorado State University One comment

Kit Hughes writes about the necessity of solidarity in academia along with other workplaces in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minimum Viable Cinema (Criticism)
Alexandra Juhasz / Brooklyn College, CUNY

April 24, 2020 Alexandra Juhasz / Brooklyn College, CUNY

ROOM H.264: Quarantine, April 2020 was sponsored by the Museum of the Moving Image. “Is cinema becoming a dead language — an art form which is already in decline?” (Wim Wenders, Room 666, 1982; Eric Hynes, Jeff Reichert, and Damon Smith, ROOM H.264, 2020) On April 20, 2020, I was an “audience member” in ROOM H.264: Quarantine, April 2020, an Online […]

Locked Down Listening / Communal Re-imagination
Holly Rogers / Goldsmiths, University of London

April 24, 2020 Holly Rogers / Goldsmiths, University of London

Singing from the balconies in Spain. Today we are listening harder than ever. But to what? Social distancing and isolation have reduced the noise of everyday life. As cities retreat indoors and transport comes to a standstill, the world has become a quieter place. But while a hush has settled over the outside world, our virtual spaces have exploded into […]

**Over*Flow: Coronavirus: How Hollywood Studios and Online Video Platforms Are Responding**
Roderik Smits / Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

April 21, 2020 Roderik Smits / Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF One comment

Roderik Smits considers how online streaming and transactional platforms have responded to the mass closure of movie theaters during the Covid-19 health crisis.

**Over*Flow: They Are Risen: Drive-In Distractions and Hallowed Ground Under Lockdown**
David Church / Indiana University

April 16, 2020 David Church / Indiana University 9 comments

David Church considers how a renewed interest in drive-in theaters as movie exhibition spaces, as well as spaces for religious services during the Covid-19 health crisis, brings further attention to politicization of public space.

#FrontlineMessages
Patricia Pisters / University of Amsterdam

April 14, 2020 Patricia Pisters / University of Amsterdam

#Frontberichten allows those who work on the front lines to broadcast their messages to the Netherlands and the world. A striking effect of the COVID-19 crisis that first began in 2020 is an increase of both interpersonal social media and mass media such as national broadcasting. In The Netherlands the news and talk shows on public television have had many […]

Teaching Music Video in the Pandemic
Carol Vernallis / Stanford University

April 12, 2020 Carol Vernallis / Stanford University

Fan-produced music video, using Grimes’ chromakey footage for her latest single, “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone.” My current research focuses on spectacular expansion, but with the coronavirus pandemic it seems like everything is constricting. Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics, a volume I co-edited with Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott, has just come out, and my manuscript, […]

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