A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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While Gangnam Style may run the risk of mocking K-pop and becoming the new Macarena, it may be worth the risk, as Psy has (temporary) increased the visibility of the Korean Wave within the US.
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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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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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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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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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In honor of Geography Awareness Week I thought it apropos to take a closer look at some participatory cultures and popular grievances that have concretized around errors in digital cartography -- especially in light of the recent and now infamous mapping debacle, Apple Maps.
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An exploration of the connection between the archive, archival research, and feminism.
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With election results now in, attention has inevitably turned to the one media source that has seemingly dedicated itself, 24/7, to making sure Obama was defeated and Republicans would take control of the Senate: Fox News.
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A week after Hurricane Sandy, it is clear that media presentations of white ethnic working-class "shore" populations are distinct from, yet overlapping with, both those of the more privileged and more visible Manhattan, and also those of the poorer and more disenfranchised Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
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Wednesday morning left both the electoral map and Republican politicians feeling a little blue, yet there was another group in need of collective introspection: political journalists, commentators and pundits.
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Our fourth, and final collaboration with the Society for Cinema & Media Studies to review the New York Film Festival concludes with a discussion of Amor, Night Across the Street, and Holy Motors.
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, an unexpected celebrity has emerged - Lydia Callis, a sign language interpreter who appeared on-screen alongside Mayor Bloomberg during his warnings in advance of the hurricane. But Callis, as a visible form of media access, makes it all too clear how access is usually hidden from view.
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For many, the announcement of the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney for over four billion dollars may have come as a shock.
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Our third post on New York Film Festival 2012 is a collaboration with the Society for Cineman & Media Studies, and reviews three films from the festival: NO, Ginger and Rosa, and Not Fade Away.
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How to access media from your homeland while abroad.
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