A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Louisa Stein explores the realities and possibilities of short form fan audiovisual authorship, particularly on the platform Vine, and examines the form’s role within a larger media ecosystem.
Read moreLouisa Stein highlights evolving fan practices by examining two aesthetic forms, the gifset and the fanmix, that have evolved within interfaces that emphasize abundant multiplicity and multidirectional flow.
Read moreManuel G. Avilés-Santiago explores the intersections of pageants, politics, and social media in light of a newsworthy 2015 Miss Universe and pageants’ cultivation of media spreadability via “YouTube moments.”
Read moreLaura Minor explores the ambiguity of contemporary documentary forms, examining Andrew Jarecki’s documentary mini-series The Jinx in relation to the television documdrama, analyzing its hybridity, extratextuality, and its presentation of “real life” spoilers.
Read moreLouisa Stein examines the divide between traditional fan vidding communities and newer fan vidding practices, arguing for the embrace a larger cultural creative framework that honors the specifics of communities and specific fan practices.
Read moreLa telenovela mexicana en el ciberespacio
by: Claudia Benassini Félix / Tecnológico de Monterrey, State of Mexico
La telenovela mexicana es uno de los productos más exitosos de la televisión nacional pero también enfrenta
la competencia de otros países. / Telenovelas represent one of the most successful products to emerge from Mexico’s television industry, but they have always faced competition from other countries.
Watching TV Without Pity
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Rip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added.
Rating the Runway: Project Runway and New York Fashion Week
by: Moya Luckett / New York University
Project Runway is an example of how recent reality television shows rely on viewer responses to help construct the narrative. the show maintains a distinct textual presence while they advocate viewer participation, play with the idea of permeable and non-permeable textual boundaries and highlight the different ways in which we can access ‘the real world.’
Stripping (Part 2)
by: Daniel Marcus / Goucher College
How does stripping popular series for syndication affect the how viewers receive actors, subplots, and secondary characters? In the final installment of his two-part series on stripping, Marcus explores the impact of syndication practices and raises some interesting questions about how cable channels and DVD technology alter how we watch TV.
Producers, Publics, and Podcasts: Where Does Television Happen?
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
An investigation of the tangled creative relationship between fans and the television industry in the age of the internet.
Speculation with Spoilers
by: Jonathan Gray / Fordham University
It is now possible to discover upcoming plot twists in your favorite television series with a little internet research. How does the proliferation of “spoilers” in online fan communities change the way we understand television spectatorship?