Sex, Media, Celebrity: A Queer Culture of Media Production
by: Adam Fish / UCLA
Subcultures become pop cultures and today’s underground emerges as tomorrow’s mainstream.
Tag: New Media
“Why 2008 Won’t Be Like 1984:” Viral Videos and Presidential Politics
by: Chuck Tryon / Fayetteville State University
How will voter-created viral videos shape the mediascape of the forthcoming 2008 US Presidential Election?.
Network Television’s Ongoing Struggle with Web-based Television
by: Ray Cha / Independent Scholar
Peers accepted, provide online channels for established media.
TiVoing Childhood
by: Jason Mittell / Middlebury College
What is television to a child who only knows TiVo?
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.’
Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Sundance 2006
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
A discussion of the small screens, Sundance, and the future of independent film distribution.
Public Radio Redux
by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Despite the availability of public radio in new forms, and the changing focus of programming, radio’s primary strength remains its status as the most local of media.
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.
Why Accurate Audience Measurement is Worth the Trouble
by: Elliot Panek / Emerson College & former FLOW Staff
Perhaps we’ll never have totally accurate answers to our “who’s watching and why” questions, but that doesn’t make the search for these answers any less worthwhile.
Speaking to Each Other at Last? The Ghost of TV Past, Present and To Come…
by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia
A look backwards at the role of television scholarship reveals some insights about where we can go from here, as well as the roads not travelled.
Let’s Get Small: The Year When the Record Industry Broke and Listeners Became Crazy, Mixed Up, Downloading, File-Sharing Freaks
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
As digital music sources expanded both their catalogues and user bases in 2005, music distribution continues its shift from the record store to the download store.
What Color Is Your Scholarship?
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
A look at academia’s slow adoption of new technologies for its own work.