Theme Weeks

Transmedia: New Platforms [October 11-15, 2010]

Inventing New Conventions for Digital Storytelling

Inventing New Conventions for Digital Storytelling
by Janet H. Murray

Harry Shum Jr: Dancing With and Without Glee

Harry Shum Jr: Dancing With and Without Glee
by Henry Jenkins

Learning from The Elders: Crowdfunding, Transmedia, and Documentary

Learning from The Elders: Crowdfunding, Transmedia, ...
by Chuck Tryon

Oral Wiki project

Oral Wiki project
by Christina Dunbar-Hester

The Games of Nonchalance

The Games of Nonchalance
by Jeff Watson

Animals in Media [October 4-8, 2010]

Race Horse as Rock Star: Fandom and Zenyatta

Race Horse as Rock Star: Fandom and Zenyatta
by Holly Kruse

When Foxes Attack

When Foxes Attack
by Brett Mills

Talking Through Feminist Critiques of PETA: A Call for Animal Rights to be a Project of Media and Culture Studies Scholars

Talking Through Feminist Critiques of PETA: A Call ...
by Candice Haddad

Dumbo: Then and Now

Dumbo: Then and Now
by Susan Nance

Birds in Oil and Watercolor

Birds in Oil and Watercolor
by Lisa Uddin

Banned Books Week [September 27 - October 1, 2010]

21st Century Burning

21st Century Burning
by Dr. Christopher Jennings

"Holy Camp Batman!": The Legacy of Censorship in Comics
by Shawna Kidman

What REALitieS Are in the Classroom? How a Diary, a Teacher, and 150 Students Changed the World

What REALitieS Are in the Classroom? How a Diary, a ...
by Aron Christian

"And Tango Makes Three," Banned Books Week, and the ...
by Bryce J. Renninger

10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009

10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009
by ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom

Fall TV [September 20-24, 2010]

"Bridalplasty": If you're shocked, you haven't been ...
by Jennifer L. Pozner

"Everyone at ComicCon Loved The Event!": Creating ...
by Erin Copple Smith

Project Runaway: On the Road with Austin and Santino

Project Runaway: On the Road with Austin and Santino
by Victoria Sturtevant

From Four to Ten: A New Lens for Scripted TV

From Four to Ten: A New Lens for Scripted TV
by Aymar Jean Christian

"Running Wilde" and the State of Network Comedy
by Michael Z. Newman

Film Festivals [September 13-17]

The Cannes Film Festival and the Excesses of Auteurism

The Cannes Film Festival and the Excesses of Auteurism
by Virginia Wright Wexman

Queer Film and the Film Festival Circuit

Queer Film and the Film Festival Circuit
by Skadi Loist

(Not) Being There: Presence, Absence, Institutional Space, the Politics of Place

(Not) Being There: Presence, Absence, Institutional ...
by Toby Lee

The Importance of [Seemingly Permeable] Boundaries at the Film Festival

The Importance of [Seemingly Permeable] Boundaries ...
by Robert Moses Peaslee

The Different Hats of Toronto's Bell Lightbox

The Different Hats of Toronto's Bell Lightbox
by Brendan Kredell

Science Fiction and Fandom [September 6-10, 2010]

Myth, Ritual, and People Who Love Star Trek

Myth, Ritual, and People Who Love Star Trek
by Curtis Webster

"Four Days at Dragon*Con" excerpt
by Jack Walsh

Reporting from the Frontlines: Fan Conventions Go Digital

Reporting from the Frontlines: Fan Conventions Go ...
by Kayley Thomas

Star Trek, Fandom, and Mythos: The Themed Convention

Star Trek, Fandom, and Mythos: The Themed Convention
by Daryl G. Frazetti

As seen on screen? Mimetic SF fandom & the crafting of replica(nt)s

As seen on screen? Mimetic SF fandom & the crafting ...
by Matt Hills

Children's Culture [August 30 - September 3, 2010]

The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys of Childhood in Film

The Wild Child: A Fresh Look at the Pains and Joys ...
by Benjamin Thevenin

Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids ...
by Steven Boyer

Taking Stock & Giving Back: Citizenship in Hannah Montana Forever

Taking Stock & Giving Back: Citizenship in Hannah ...
by Morgan Blue

Young people, social networking and qualitative methods

Young people, social networking and qualitative methods
by Allison Butler

Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide

Metafiction for Children: A User's Guide
by Philip Nel

Media Policy [August 23-27, 2010]

Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media Policy

Please Feed the Trolls: 4chan and Vernacular Media ...
by Bill Kirkpatrick

Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood Economics in Johnson v Rysher, Celador v Disney, and so on

Unsettling Accounts: The Cultural Life of Hollywood ...
by Josh Heuman

Access of Evil: Google, Verizon and the Future of Net Neutrality

Access of Evil: Google, Verizon and the Future of ...
by Jennifer Holt

The Politics of the

The Politics of the "Same Level Playing Field": ...
by Allison Perlman

Law in the Text

Law in the Text
by Tom Streeter

Professional Wrestling [August 16-20, 2010]

A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE

A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the ...
by David Ray Carter

Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter

Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and ...
by Cory Barker

"All I Care about Is Me: I'm 'The Nature Boy": The ...
by Sam Ford

"The MSG Curtain Call": A Conflation of Front and ...
by Ari Berenstein

History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its ...
by Bryan Alvarez

Action Movies & Masculinity [August 9-13, 2010]

Action Tones

Action Tones
by Eric LeMay

A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in AVATAR

A Failure of Imagination: The role of disability in ...
by Jennifer Proctor

The World in Action

The World in Action
by Mark Gallagher

Aging and Action Authenticity

Aging and Action Authenticity
by Yvonne Tasker

The Body That Can't Win

The Body That Can't Win
by Matt Thomas