Theme Weeks

World Wide Web In Your Pocket [May 21-25, 2012]

Fantasies of Mobile Media's Utopic Ideal: Connectivity in ESPN & CENTEL Commercials

Fantasies of Mobile Media's Utopic Ideal: ...
by Scott W. Ruston

Romancing the Connection: The Allure of Democracy Through Social Media

Romancing the Connection: The Allure of Democracy ...
by Jeremy Carter

“They’re Coming…” Innovation and the Diffusion of iPads in Higher Education

“They’re Coming…” Innovation and the Diffusion of ...
by Megan Mullen

Augmented Reality and the Loss of the Exploratory Impulse

Augmented Reality and the Loss of the Exploratory ...
by Jeremy Sarachan

Curating the City

Curating the City
by Mark Tebeau

Save Our Show Campaigns [May 14-18, 2012]

Hung Out to Dry: HBO’s Cancellation Habit

Hung Out to Dry: HBO’s Cancellation Habit
by Maya Montanez Smukler

'Enlightened' or Not?: How HBO Learned to Trust Its Viewers But Not Its Shows

'Enlightened' or Not?: How HBO Learned to Trust Its ...
by Maria San Filippo

Breaking In a Formula for a Successful Network Sitcom

Breaking In a Formula for a Successful Network Sitcom
by Jennifer Porst

Lip Service: The Greatest Glaswegian Sapphic Soap Opera Ever Made

Lip Service: The Greatest Glaswegian Sapphic Soap ...
by Vernon Shetley

Felicia Day and The Guild: The Web Series That Saved Itself

Felicia Day and The Guild: The Web Series That ...
by Stephanie Spiro

The Avengers and the Multi-Film Franchise [May 7-11, 2012]

The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film Franchise

The Avengers and the Evolution of the Multi-Film ...
by Jim Mroczkowski

Joss Whedon's The Avengers

Joss Whedon's The Avengers
by Roger Whitson

I have an Army/We have a Hulk : Thinking Politics in The Avengers

I have an Army/We have a Hulk : Thinking Politics ...
by john a. sweeney

THE AVENGERS: The Rise of Superhero Movies and the End of Superhero Comics

THE AVENGERS: The Rise of Superhero Movies and the ...
by Zaki Hasan

What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from Marvel's Men

What Fangirls Want: Making More of and More from ...
by Kayley Thomas

Digital Media and the Auto-biographical Impulse [April 30-May 4, 2012]

Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the True Me

Am I Ugly?: Female Beauty, Digital Media, and the ...
by Dara Persis Murray

Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes' Avatar Portraits

Pictures of Self-Portraits: Eva and Franco Mattes' ...
by Zara Dinnen

Taking Up Montaigne: The Essay in the Digital Age

Taking Up Montaigne: The Essay in the Digital Age
by Eric LeMay

“I’m so angry that I made a sign”: Selfhood and Media Reflexivity in Occupy Protest Signs

“I’m so angry that I made a sign”: Selfhood and ...
by Lyndsey Beutin

An Autobiography of an Autobiographic Medium

An Autobiography of an Autobiographic Medium
by Daniel C. Faltesek

David Milch [April 23-27, 2012]

Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius.

Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius.
by Jason Jacobs

It's almost Shakespearean

It's almost Shakespearean
by Erika Johnson-Lewis

David Milch’s “connecting interior doors”: Private Space and Commonplace, Beginnings and Ends

David Milch’s “connecting interior doors”: Private ...
by Martin Zirulnik

The Idea of the End of a Thing

The Idea of the End of a Thing
by Sean O'Sullivan

David Milch's Depraved Saints

David Milch's Depraved Saints
by David Thorburn

Italian Television and Media Convergence [April 16 - 20, 2012]

Italian TV (and politics): A system in transition

Italian TV (and politics): A system in transition
by Massimo Scaglioni and Ira Wagman

Tutti pazzi per amore: Contemporary Fiction and Spreadable Music

Tutti pazzi per amore: Contemporary Fiction and ...
by Luca Barra

"I Cesaroni": the Innovation of Family Comedy in ...
by Cecilia Penati

Spaghetti TV Crime Fiction

Spaghetti TV Crime Fiction
by Adriano D'Aloia

Between Reality, Soap and Talk Show: Maria De Filippi’s Uomini e donne

Between Reality, Soap and Talk Show: Maria De ...
by Stefania Carini

Collegiate Sports [April 2-6, 2012]

On the Surprise of the Game

On the Surprise of the Game
by Paul Eisenstein

College Football by the Numbers

College Football by the Numbers
by Scott Krzych

The Sports Life of the Political

The Sports Life of the Political
by Brian Price

The Necessity of the Sex Scandal

The Necessity of the Sex Scandal
by Todd McGowan

Bracketologos

Bracketologos
by Robert Cavanagh

The Hunger Games [March 26-30, 2012]

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics of the Mother Daughter Bond

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon: The Gender Politics ...
by Virginia Kuhn

Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen

Adapting Trauma from Novel to Screen
by Anna Froula

Bread and Circuses: Panem as Dystopian Future or Present?

Bread and Circuses: Panem as Dystopian Future or ...
by Benjamin Thevenin

The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan Regulation

The Hunger Games, Battle Royale, and Transmedia Fan ...
by Al Harahap

The Hunger Games and the Disruption of Reality TV

The Hunger Games and the Disruption of Reality TV
by Melody Hoffmann

Religious Representations on Television [March 19-23, 2012]

The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals

The Good Wife and Religion for Liberals
by Jorie Lagerwey

Queer Jewish Difference

Queer Jewish Difference
by Rachel Silverman

Questions of Address: The

Questions of Address: The "Me" in "Me and the Mosque"
by Kyle Conway

Louie's

Louie's "God" As Cathartic Television
by Kelli Marshall

I am the Lord your God

I am the Lord your God
by Rossend Sanchez Baro

Fairy Tale as Format [March 12-16, 2012]

Fairy Tales And The Sophisticated Viewer

Fairy Tales And The Sophisticated Viewer
by Lindsey Kempton

A Dream Walking: Desire and Fantasy in Catherine Breillat's

A Dream Walking: Desire and Fantasy in Catherine ...
by Michael Besozzi

Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention

Anime Fairy Tales: Fighting Fate and Convention
by Amanda Landa

The Root of Evil--ABC's

The Root of Evil--ABC's "Once Upon A Time" Makes ...
by Mattie Tanner

Grimm: Old School Genre Dressed in the Latest Fashion

Grimm: Old School Genre Dressed in the Latest Fashion
by Lisa Schmidt