Jennifer Lynn Jones explores dieting episodes in the classic family sitcom, The Goldbergs.
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The Diets of the Goldbergs
Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging Down
All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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What Are You Missing? Aug 5 – Aug 18
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Deadline Extended: The Velvet Light Trap CFP: On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)
The Editorial Board of The Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline for its forthcoming "On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)" issue to September 1. In particular, VLT seeks sound-related research that addresses issues and topics in radio, television, video games, digital/new media, and other non-film media. Read on for the CFP.
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds as Residual Radio
In Antenna's first post in the From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years collaborative series with Sounding Out!, Eleanor Patterson explores how it is that we are still listening to the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 75 years later, and in what ways its discursive and material...
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Let’s talk about search: Some lessons from building Lantern
This week, Lantern, a search and visualization platform for the Media History Digital Library, reached its first wide public.
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Embracing Fan Creativity in Transmedia Storytelling (LeakyCon Portland)
LeakyCon's value lies in its participants’ willingness to forgo boundaries and to explore what new connections happen as a result of creative mergers and blendings.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Fast Forwarding
Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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Redefining the Performance of Masculinity at LeakyCon Portland
Part six of a seven-part series: LeakyCon’s space alters norms of masculine performance, creating a set of genderqueer performance aesthetics tailored to its fangirl attendees.
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From Mercury to Mars: Introducing Antenna’s New Radio Studies Series
Antenna is pleased to announce the launch of a 12-part, 6-month long series entitled From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years. A partnership between Antenna and Sounding Out!, the series is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast this October by offering a range of critical...
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Teach Hacks: Creating Clips from DVDs
Extracting clips from DVDs is and will continue to be a crucial skill for media educators and researchers even as cloud and streaming services threaten DVDs; here's how to do it.
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Inspiring Fans at LeakyCon Portland
Part 5 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon explores the ways fans and their creative labors influence the work of stars and producers of source texts.
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From LGBT to GSM: Gender and Sexual Identity among LeakyCon’s Queer Youth (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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What Are You Missing? July 22 – Aug 4
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Fans and Stars and Starkids (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 3 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon focuses on the production of fandom by the "Starkids" theater troupe as well as those fans who call themselves simply "Starkids."
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Shame On(line) You: Social Activism, Racist Tweets, and Public Shaming
To examine the dialogue that results from the Public Shaming tumblr, I focus on responses to racist tweets in the aftermath of the Asiana Airline accident.
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