Theme Weeks

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

Lady Gaga's Gender/Queerness [August 2-6]

"I'm not a feminist… I love men": Rethinking Lady ...
by Jessalynn Keller

Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Gender and spectacle at GAGAKOH

Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Gender and spectacle ...
by Kirsty Fairclough

Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism

Lady Gaga and the High Heels of New Feminism
by Madison Moore

Lady Gaga's Phallicity

Lady Gaga's Phallicity
by Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke

Answering the Feminist Call: Lady Gaga's 'Telephone' as Pop Art

Answering the Feminist Call: Lady Gaga's ...
by Dom Nasilowski

Transmedia Now [July 26-30, 2010]

TEST TEST TEST Transmedia

TEST TEST TEST Transmedia
by Christy Dena

(Still) Waiting For the Transmedia Godot

(Still) Waiting For the Transmedia Godot
by Marc Ruppel

Indie Superheroes

Indie Superheroes
by Robert Pratten

"Awra Amba" - Documentary and Transmedia Activism
by Brian Newman

Allowing A Transmedia Approach To Process

Allowing A Transmedia Approach To Process
by Ted Hope

Gulf Oil Spill [July 19-23, 2010]

Feeling Place

Feeling Place
by Kevin Sanson

Cleaning Up the Gulf With Twitter

Cleaning Up the Gulf With Twitter
by Elizabeth Schwarz

Spilling the Story

Spilling the Story
by Joelle S. Underwood and Janelle A. Schwartz

Dawn Soap: Greenwashing our way to cleaner wildlife

Dawn Soap: Greenwashing our way to cleaner wildlife
by Carrie Packwood Freeman

In Need of a Jazz Funeral: Hyper-Mediated Mourning of the Gulf Coast

In Need of a Jazz Funeral: Hyper-Mediated Mourning ...
by Shana Heinricy

Summer TV [July 12-16, 2010]

Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the Potential of a USA Network Genre

Westen Meets Lawson: Formula as Brand and the ...
by Charlotte Howell

Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney

Hot In Cleveland: Betty Does Disney
by Jaime Weinman

Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network Contract of Summer TV

Cynicism Takes a Beach Trip: The Audience-Network ...
by Jeremy Mongeau

The Rigidity of Seasonal Synergy

The Rigidity of Seasonal Synergy
by Myles McNutt

Summer Binging: What will it make you do?

Summer Binging: What will it make you do?
by Christine Becker

Sports & Media [July 5-9, 2010]

100 Years Later: Race and

100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"
by Roopika Risam

The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online

The Impossible Dream: Fake Sports Online
by Gregory Zinman

Finding Cullen Jones: The Complicated Position of Race in Swimming

Finding Cullen Jones: The Complicated Position of ...
by Emily Newman

Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the Commodity Audience

Selling Strasburg: Baseball, Broadcast Flow and the ...
by Mabel Rosenheck

30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration

30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration
by Travis Vogan

The Twilight Saga [June 28 - July 2, 2010]

Twilight: The Multi-Media Marketing Machine

Twilight: The Multi-Media Marketing Machine
by Maggie Parke

Twilight Fandom: Taking a Bite Out of Gendered Backlash

Twilight Fandom: Taking a Bite Out of Gendered Backlash
by Natalie Wilson

"Twilight is a license to print money": Selling the ...
by Courtney Brannon Donoghue

Eclipsing the

Eclipsing the "Real": Twilight & Simulacra
by Rebecca Housel

Contemplating the Franchise, the Fandom and the Celebrity Juggernaut of the Twilight Saga

Contemplating the Franchise, the Fandom and the ...
by Jennifer Stevens Aubrey

Fan/Celebrity Relationships [June 14-18, 2010]

Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional

Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional
by Anne Helen Petersen

'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance

'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating ...
by Lindsay H. Garrison

The “Oh My Salvatore” Vlog as a Case of “Crazy” but Permissible Fan Behavior

The “Oh My Salvatore” Vlog as a Case of “Crazy” but ...
by Kristen Warner

Who’s Stalking Whom: Eli Roth and the Blueberries

Who’s Stalking Whom: Eli Roth and the Blueberries
by Kristina Busse

We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan Devotion, Desire, and Domination

We Want You: Transmedia Performances of Fan ...
by Louisa Stein

Conservatives [June 7-11, 2010]

Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right

Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right
by Allison Perlman

The Reagan Brand

The Reagan Brand
by Tim Raphael

$#*! That Lawyers Say: Or, the Nine-Sixteenths of a Second That Shocked Television (Sort Of)

$#*! That Lawyers Say: Or, the Nine-Sixteenths of a ...
by Cynthia Chris

Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit

Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit
by Heather Hendershot

Female Foxes: Playing the ‘Right’ Woman on Fox News

Female Foxes: Playing the ‘Right’ Woman on Fox News
by Jeffrey P. Jones

Paper [May 31 - June 4, 2010]

The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and ...
by Jonathan Senchyne

Red Tape Measures

Red Tape Measures
by Ben Kafka

Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!

Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!
by Cathleen A. Baker

“‘Toilet paper is the new scroll. :P’

“‘Toilet paper is the new scroll. :P’"
by Joshua Calhoun

Paper in the Age of Industrial Print

Paper in the Age of Industrial Print
by Timothy Carmody