What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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What Are You Missing? Dec 9-23
Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part II)
As the Canadian Museum of Civilization transforms into the Canadian Museum of History, it seems that meaningful conversations about historical issues that are actually formative of Canadian culture are less compelling than the $25 million incentive that comes with the tunnel vision of the Ministry of Heritage.
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Crowdsourcing as Consultation: Branding History at Canada’s Museum of Civilization (Part I)
Canada’s sesquicentennial is eagerly anticipated by Canada’s Conservative government, which is planning a series of commemorative events. The trouble is, these events are contrived to commemorate the Conservative government far more than the nation’s glorious (or inglorious) pasts.
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On Radio: Driveway Moment
The Abigael Affair crystallizes the challenges of NPR’s campaign to re-create itself as a fully modern and digital multi-platform news, information, and culture channel, while maintaining its distinctive affective character.
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Nick Moms vs. NickMom
Nick Jr.'s new NickMom lineup fits with its brand but ends up missing the mark with a core segment of its audience, highlighting the ambivalence surrounding contemporary representations of motherhood.
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Report from the Atlanta Media Industries Forum
Christine Becker attended a media industry forum at Georgia State University and left with thoughts about challenges for both the media industries and academia in Atlanta.
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Feminist. Media. Criticism. Is. (Part 2)
A manifesta for feminist media criticism.
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Feminist. Media. Criticism. Is. (Part 1)
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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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Episodic: What Games Learned From TV
While episodic gaming is a new frontier for how developers make games, it is perhaps an even larger divergence in terms of how we play games.
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How Tavi Gevinson Restored my Love of Gramsci (and Hope for Feminism)
Rookie's Tavi Gevinson offers a feminist, anti-elitist model of Gramsci’s organic intellectual.
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy
What could cultural studies work on TV look like if we saw our function as facilitating conversations among our students (and ourselves) about social identity, privilege, and power centered on their and our differing engagements with and feelings about television programming?
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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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It’s Science Time! ‘Princess Scientists’ and Princess Bubblegum
Instead of taking science and decorating it with feminine elements, we need to embrace the possibilities of the princess and the scientist dissolving into each other to form a true ‘princess scientist.' Princess Bubblegum, from Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, creates a space in science where being feminine is acceptable.
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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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Midwifes and Melodrama: Call the Midwife & PBS
PBS perhaps hoped that BBC1’s Call the Midwife could be their next big hit, following on from the success of ITV1’s Downton Abbey. Faye Woods contemplates the significance of Call the Midwife's inability to match Downton Abbey's ratings and buzz in the US.
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