Deception – Flow

To Watch a Predator

April 5, 2007 Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University 3 comments

by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?

Seeing is Believing

March 19, 2007 Jennifer Warren/Independent Scholar 2 comments

by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar

Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.

Let Me Tell You—

March 9, 2007 Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College 6 comments

by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.

Watching TV Poker

February 24, 2006 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Andrejevic considers the cultural logic of the recent surge in televised poker tourneys.

What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been

December 16, 2005 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa One comment

by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?