Theme Weeks

Procedurals [March 8-12, 2010]

“Looking for things, analyzing them, trying to figure out the world”: Professional expertise and authority in the TV police procedural

“Looking for things, analyzing them, trying to ...
by Steven Cohan

“Science is no country for storytellers, baby.”: Bones as Forensic Procedural.

“Science is no country for storytellers, baby.”: ...
by Jules Odendahl-James

“Just one more thing”: Columbo’s investigation of analog technologies

“Just one more thing”: Columbo’s investigation of ...
by Amelie Hastie

"There are eight million stories in the naked city; ...
by Grant Wythoff

Professional Lives

Professional Lives
by Derek Kompare

Manhood in the New Millennium [March 1-5, 2010]

Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds

Contemporary Male Masculinity in 30 Seconds
by Peter Alilunas

Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile Tactics of Queer Masculinity

Back to Nurture: Bear Bodies and The Tactile ...
by Kaelin B.C. Alexander

The girls have caught up to the boys

The girls have caught up to the boys
by Robert Gehl

The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy

The Link Prank: A Legacy of the Internet Cowboy
by ethan tussey

'Slapping Your Troubles Away': Remixing and Recirculating the Pitchman

'Slapping Your Troubles Away': Remixing and ...
by David Gurney

Mobile Media [February 15-19, 2010]

Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone
by Ben Aslinger

Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone Directories & Mobile Perception

Surveying Wired Landscapes: Early Telephone ...
by Emily Goodmann

Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience

Why “Where” Matters: Mobile Media and Urban Experience
by Germaine Halegoua

Connect digital divide

Connect digital divide
by Yi-Fan Chen

Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media as Emotive Performance

Fantastic Journey, Emotional Journey: Mobile Media ...
by Elizabeth Evans

Oprah [February 8-12, 2010]

Stories of O: Oprah's Culture Industries

Stories of O: Oprah's Culture Industries
by Kimberly Springer

Too Big to Fail?

Too Big to Fail?
by Janice Peck

For the Sake of the Children

For the Sake of the Children
by John Howard

I've been rich and I've been poor: the economics of Oprah

I've been rich and I've been poor: the economics of ...
by Vanessa Jackson

Oprah's Got Beef?: Alleged Matriarchies & Masculinist Rhymes

Oprah's Got Beef?: Alleged Matriarchies & ...
by Kimberly Springer

Books as Screens [November 30-December 4]

Talking Heads: Books, Authors, and Television News

Talking Heads: Books, Authors, and Television News
by Hollis Griffin

How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as screens on screen

How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as ...
by Elizabeth Lenaghan

The Selling of Bookselling

The Selling of Bookselling
by Ted Striphas

"Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book
by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

What Are Books?

What Are Books?
by Lisa Gitelman

Visual Storytelling [November 16-November 20]

So Damn Hot – a From Eroica with Love vid by Diana Williams

So Damn Hot – a From Eroica with Love vid by Diana ...
by Mafalda Stasi

"Mission Report": The Medium Is The Message
by Francesca Coppa

Battlestar Redactica: Visual Revision of Narrative Error

Battlestar Redactica: Visual Revision of Narrative ...
by Julie Levin Russo

Supernatural “At the Movies”: Context, Canon, and Genre in AU Vids

Supernatural “At the Movies”: Context, Canon, and ...
by Kristina Busse

"New Slang": Happily Ever After
by Tisha Turk

Human Rights [November 9-November 12]

Ubiquitous video, local humiliation, networked dignity

Ubiquitous video, local humiliation, networked dignity
by Sameer Padania

Sex workers' rights are human rights

Sex workers' rights are human rights
by Melissa Gira Grant

She is Me: Gender, Immigration, and Economics in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

She is Me: Gender, Immigration, and Economics in ...
by Sarah Van Deusen Phillips

Video and Trafficking

Video and Trafficking
by Leshu Torchin

Dexter [November 2-November 6]

Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as ...
by Angelina Karpovich

Dexter: Repression, Revelation and the Significance of Mommy

Dexter: Repression, Revelation and the Significance ...
by Beth Johnson

Dexter and Disavowal

Dexter and Disavowal
by David Schmid

Dexter and Film Noir: Lila the Femme Fatale

Dexter and Film Noir: Lila the Femme Fatale
by Alison Peirse

Dexter: Early Cuts: A Slice of (Comic) Life

Dexter: Early Cuts: A Slice of (Comic) Life
by Douglas L. Howard

Otherness [October 26-October 30]

Blackface: The New

Blackface: The New "It" Bag
by Kimberly Alecia Singletary

Nights @ Indian Call Centers

Nights @ Indian Call Centers
by James Daniel Elam

Pioneering a

Pioneering a "new" America? Complicating otherness ...
by Ethan Caldwell

'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in German-Speaking Europe

'Mohr' No More? Advertising the Other in ...
by Susanne Hamscha

Good Hair: About Us but not For Us

Good Hair: About Us but not For Us
by Tokumbo Bodunde

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Kids TV [October 19- October 23]

Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre

Tween Comedies and the Evolution of a Genre
by Michael Z. Newman

Ernie and Bert: Just Good Friends?

Ernie and Bert: Just Good Friends?
by Heather Hendershot

Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame Street’s Dual Address

Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame ...
by Amanda Ann Klein

In Search of Boys: Aaron Stone and Disney XD

In Search of Boys: Aaron Stone and Disney XD
by Elana Levine

Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal

Jack Black, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Kid-Cult Appeal
by Jason Mittell

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