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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV

November 18, 2005 Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University 3 comments

by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Making sense of the supernatural on prime-time.

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Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show

November 18, 2005 David Lavery / Brunel University 9 comments

by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Sham or not, The Daily Show remains deeply committed to its mission: “truthiness.”

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Soap in the Chocolate Bar

September 23, 2005 Tom McCourt / Fordham University 5 comments

by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Does Apple’s new iPod Nano represent greater freedom for digital music users?

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