I want to do what I can to help keep this thing—feminist media studies—going for as long as it’s needed. I want to be the feminist media scholar I want to see in the world.
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Columns
Feminist. Media. Criticism. Is. (Part 1)
What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Mediating the Past: Licensing History, One Game At a Time
By licensing—and disciplining—history, the Assassin's Creed series seeks to turn cultural capital into gaming capital.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 2)
A group of TV Studies faculty share more impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)
A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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Magic Vaginas, The End of Men, and Working Like a Dog
Recent discourse has juxtaposed the magical power of vaginas, how easy it is to rape sluts, and how we shouldn’t be mean to Mrs. Romney by implying that she doesn’t work, alongside reports of some mythical majority of female breadwinners who were emerging victorious from the post-recessionary economic slugfest.
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What Are You Missing? November 4-17
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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ESPN and EA Sports’ NHL Season Simulation
While the lockout prohibits NHL players from lacing up for their teams, it has not prevented video game behemoth EA Sports from promoting its annual National Hockey League game.
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Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm
Treme does not simply revisit a post-Katrina sequence of events. It tracks the mediated versions of them, underlining, commenting and critiquing previous formulations, re-inventing the story and becoming part it.
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Secretarial Work and Women’s Clubs: Finding Women in the Archive
An exploration of the connection between the archive, archival research, and feminism.
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The Middle East: Inside, Outside, and Online
Antenna introduces a new series on the mediation of Middle Eastern politics, edited by Matt Sienkiewicz and articulated through the side-by-side perspectives of bloggers and academics.
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What Are You Missing? October 7-20
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16-29
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Officially Defeated: On the Broader Significance of the NFL Referee Lockout
The referee lockout has been resolved, but we would do well do consider its broader implications before we allow it to recede into the past.
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards
While winners and losers may speak most directly to television's hierarchies, the Emmy telecast itself offers a space in which broadcast networks can reshape prevailing discourses of quality within the television industry.
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