I invested in a Roku box to reduce costs by streaming television over the Internet rather than paying for cable. Mission accomplished? Kind of.
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Archive for August, 2012
Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]
Dear Search Committees,
It’s almost job season again, which means that it’s almost advice season again. Though grad students and job seekers are inundated with advice, search committees need advice too.
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The 2012 Sight & Sound Poll: Don’t Call it a Consensus
Sight and Sound's top ten gets all the press, but beneath it is a much larger, more heterogeneous body of work that reveals larger trends in film and beyond.
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Rosario Dawson and the Ambiguous Blackness of Latinidad
The film work of actress Rosario Dawson helps media studies scholars address overlooked social discourses concerning Latina/o mixed race subjectivity.
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma
A brief discussion and interview with Baseball Prospectus podcaster Kevin Goldstein on the current state of baseball analysis.
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Different for Boys: Frank Ocean and the “Problem” of Male Bisexuality
Frank Ocean's alleged coming out story never uses the word "gay" and his music expresses desire for same- and opposite-sex partners. So how do we make the leap?
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