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What Remains: The East Marshall Street Oral History and Memorialization Well Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

December 2, 2025 Christine Cynn / Virginia Commonwealth University and Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University Leave a comment

This article examines VCU’s East Marshall Street Well Project, uncovering racist histories of anatomical dissection and tracing current community-led efforts toward ethical research, oral history, memorialisation, and overdue reburial of the stolen remains.

Building the Television Network: AT&T’s Southwest Extension and the Fort Worth Rodeo
Selena Dickey / Furman University

July 17, 2024 Selena Dickey / Furman University One comment

Selena Dickey argues that the growth of nationwide, synchronous television service was a much more contingent, incremental, and local process than most media historians have previously acknowledged.

Exporting local nostalgia – Polish past for global audiences
Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University

March 6, 2024 Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University Leave a comment

Dr. Sylwia Szostak examines Netflix’s “nostalgia strategy” in a recent Polish film, Mr. Car and the Knights Templar, arguing that global distribution results in the delocalization of Netflix’s “local productions.”

The Homogenized Queerness of Historical Television
Britta Hanson / University of Texas at Austin

July 5, 2017 Britta Hanson 2 comments

What does the presence of queer characters accomplish in historical shows? How much historicity do their depictions require? Britta Hanson explores the positive – and frequently negative – implications of modern-framed queer characters placed in the past.

A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

February 26, 2017 Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina 2 comments

Susan Courtney reflects on teaching race and media studies to undergraduates, inspired in part by her fall 2015 course, “Mediating Ferguson, USA: 1915-2015.”

#TrumpIsRight: The Paradox of Digital Database Histories and Collective Memory
Eric Hahn / New York University

October 24, 2016 Eric Hahn / New York University One comment

Eric Hahn explores how user-generated digital databases complicate our understanding of the nature of reportage, history, and news coverage.

“Cibercultura” y cibercultur@

April 20, 2007 Jorge A. González / UNAM 4 comments

by: Jorge A. González / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Una propuesta en cuanto al neologismo “cibercultur@”: entenderlo como un objeto de estudio y como un valor
de desarrollo y empoderamiento social. / A proposal to
use the neologism “cybercultur@” to designate an area
of study, as well as describe a value for development and social empowerment.

El Inicio de la Investigación Científica de la Comunicación Social en América Latina

April 20, 2007 José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana 5 comments

by: José Luis Ortiz Garza / Universidad Panamericana
Información sobre el proyecto Office of Inter-American Affairs [OIAA] dirigido por Nelson Rockefeller. / Information about the the Office of Inter-American
Affairs [OIAA], a project directed by Nelson Rockefeller.

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Tag: History

What Remains: The East Marshall Street Oral History and Memorialization Well Project
Christine J. Cynn & Maggie Bertsche / Virginia Commonwealth University

Building the Television Network: AT&T’s Southwest Extension and the Fort Worth Rodeo
Selena Dickey / Furman University

Exporting local nostalgia – Polish past for global audiences
Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University

The Homogenized Queerness of Historical Television
Britta Hanson / University of Texas at Austin

A Pedagogical Experiment in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Susan Courtney / University of South Carolina

#TrumpIsRight: The Paradox of Digital Database Histories and Collective Memory
Eric Hahn / New York University

El Inicio de la Investigación Científica de la Comunicación Social en América Latina

TV Revisiting TV: Why TV Does the “Remake” Better than Movies Do

Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows?: Television as History

Krebs, Recycled

Move over Marshall McLuhan! Live from the Arctic!