Media Influence

#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.

A Part and Apart: Hawaii and Domestic Satellite Broadcasting, 1967-1971
Selena Dickey / University of Texas Austin

July 5, 2016 Selena Dickey / Furman University One comment

Selena Dickey analyzes the way industry rhetoric shaped understandings of new telecommunication satellite technology and Hawaii’s regional identity, often configured as both a part of the domestic and apart from it.

Prostitution or Oprah: The Impact of Dichotomous Images of Black Women
Mary Vanderlinden/Averett University

August 27, 2012 Mary Vanderlinden Averett University Leave a comment

Mary Vanderlinden shares the results of her study on the influence of televisual portrayals of professional women on college-age African American women.

Sanjaya and the Mulatto Millenium

May 4, 2007 Mary Beltran / University of Texas - Austin 9 comments

by: Mary BeltrÃ¡n / University of Wisconsin-Madison
These days it’s a boon to star hopefuls not only to have an ethnically ambiguous look but to be open about their mixed heritage in their publicity.

Sometimes a kiss is just a kiss: (not) responding to the Richard Gere-Shipla Shetty controversy in India

May 4, 2007 Shanti Kumar / University of Texas 4 comments

by: Shanti Kumar / University of Texas-Austin
The Indian majority’s non-response to the Gere-Shetty kiss indicates reinforces the notion that diverse cultures in India have known how to live with each other for centuries

La televisiÃ³n mexicana y la transformaciÃ³n del poder en MÃ©xico en el siglo XXI

April 20, 2007 Javier Esteinou Madrid / UAM, Xochimilco One comment

by: Javier Esteinou Madrid / Universidad AutÃ³noma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco
Entramos en la fase histÃ³rica de vivir bajo el imperio
del nuevo poder informal de los medios de difusiÃ³n colectivos. / We are entering a new historical phase in which we live under the empire of the new informal power of collective mass media.

Watching TV Without Pity

April 5, 2007 Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa 3 comments

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.

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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