Kyra Hunting continues her discussion of software options for media textual analysis, suggesting that while there is no single perfect qualitative research software application available, a combination of Filemaker Pro, NVivo, Dedoose, and Cinemetrics has helped her dig more deeply into media texts.
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Tags: academic research, Cinemetrics, coding, Dedoose, digital tools, FileMaker Pro, methodology, nodes, NVivo, Qualtrics, television studies
Posted in Columns, Digital Tools | 1 Comment »
Does circulating information influence, inflect, or inhibit material relations in empirically verifiable ways? And do strategic interventions in the super-structural sphere actually promote sustainable social effects?
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Tags: Bakhtin, Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, circuit model, circulation, cultural studies, cultural theory, Discourse, emergence, gender, gender and television, Gramsci, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Mass Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, media effects, media literacy, media theory, Representation, Richard Johnson, strong effects, Stuart Hall, sublimation, television, television studies, weak effects
Posted in Academia, Perspectives | Comments Off on Julie D’Acci on the Emergent Qualities of Sublimating Circuits
The Generation(s) of Television Studies symposium, held at the University of Georgia, made visible just how influential Horace Newcomb has been to the field.
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Tags: academic conference, Cinema Journal, Horace Newcomb, television studies
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As more media scholars grapple with issues traditionally associated with aesthetic analysis, the need to map the history, methods, and goals of this “aesthetic turn” proves increasingly pressing.
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Tags: aesthetic turn, cultural studies, cultural turn, Elihu Katz, encoding/decoding, genre, Gordon Allport, Hadley Cantril, historical poetics, Jason Mittell, John Caldwell, John Fiske, John Hartley, Julie D'Acci, Lynn Spigel, media aesthetics, media studies, Narrative Complexity, Office of Radio Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, performance studies, Personal Influence, production studies, Psychology of Radio, radio studies, Raymond Williams, reception studies, Robert Allen, Rockefeller Foundation, Rudolf Arnheim, SCMS, semiotics, sound studies, Stuart Hall, television studies, textual analysis
Posted in Academia, Film, Industry, Perspectives, Radio, TV | 4 Comments »
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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Tags: cultural studies, empathy, pedagogy, ron becker, teaching, television studies
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What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
Posted in Politics, TV | 2 Comments »
Feminism is not just an approach one might take. It's kind of the point.
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Tags: feminism, media studies, television studies
Posted in Columns, Feminist Media Studies | 4 Comments »
How to define television studies? What is television studies and what isn't?
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Tags: academia, television, television studies
Posted in Perspectives, Print, TV | 10 Comments »
