Theme Weeks

American Idol Season 10 Postmortem [May 30 - June 3, 2011]

God and Country and Scotty McCreery

God and Country and Scotty McCreery
by Katherine Meizel

Too HAWT To Win

Too HAWT To Win
by Christopher Bell

Is Jennifer Lopez a Simon/Paula hybrid?

Is Jennifer Lopez a Simon/Paula hybrid?
by Natalie Wilson

AI10: How a Pop Culture Phenomenon Grew Up Without Growing Old

AI10: How a Pop Culture Phenomenon Grew Up Without ...
by Alex Wagner-Trugman & Suellen Wagner

From Paternal to Patronizing: The Declining Credibility of Female Contestants

From Paternal to Patronizing: The Declining ...
by Tricia Clasen

Media Representations of Brain Injuries in Sports [May 23-27, 2011]

Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the Politics of Cheerleading Injuries

Legitimizing the Feminine?: Regulation and the ...
by Bryce McNeil

Aaron Rodgers's Magic Floating Helmet

Aaron Rodgers's Magic Floating Helmet
by David Epstein

The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in Professional Sports

The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in ...
by Todd Martin

Uninformed Outrage: When Steroids Were Blamed in Place of CTE

Uninformed Outrage: When Steroids Were Blamed in ...
by Steve Granelli

Smashed in the Head with a Sledgehammer

Smashed in the Head with a Sledgehammer
by Stephen Brauer

TV Season Finales [May 16-20, 2011]

"Do Season Finales Even Matter Anymore?" or "Season ...
by Kelly Kessler

The Biggest Loser: The Television Show that Never Ends?

The Biggest Loser: The Television Show that Never Ends?
by Steve Herro

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" - Sex and the City: The ...
by Kim Akass

Season? Finale?

Season? Finale?
by Kristen Heflin

A sendoff to obscurity: I Married Dora and the anti-cliffhanger season finale

A sendoff to obscurity: I Married Dora and the ...
by Eleanor Seitz

Product Placement/Integration [May 9-13, 2011]

The Trouble with Your Refreshment System

The Trouble with Your Refreshment System
by Leah Shafer

"Maybe Romance Will Crop Up": Product Placement on ...
by Lindsay Giggey

Critique, Brought to You By ___________

Critique, Brought to You By ___________
by James F. Hamilton

Product Placement Saves the Music Video Star?

Product Placement Saves the Music Video Star?
by Erin Copple Smith

Blurry Lines: Product Placement and Celebrity Endorsement

Blurry Lines: Product Placement and Celebrity ...
by Shana Meganck

Labor in the Media Industries [May 2-6, 2011]

The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry

The Hidden Face of the Adult Film Industry
by Mary Erickson

Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary
by Nina Huntemann

The Exposure Economy

The Exposure Economy
by Caroline Hamilton

Digital Labor in Participatory Television

Digital Labor in Participatory Television
by Adam Fish

Historicizing Music Supervision

Historicizing Music Supervision
by Ben Aslinger

Globalization and Japanese Popular Culture [April 25-29, 2011]

"Genki Dama Saves the World": Japanese Popular ...
by Ian Peters

The Death of Manga?

The Death of Manga?
by Jonathan Tarbox

The Ambassadors of Cute: Helping or Hurting Japan’s Global Image?

The Ambassadors of Cute: Helping or Hurting Japan’s ...
by Laura Beltz Imaoka

Love and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Women in Japanese Ladies’ Comics

Love and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Women in ...
by Kinko Ito

The Global Cult(ure) of Hatsune Miku

The Global Cult(ure) of Hatsune Miku
by Alex Leavitt

TV Failure [April 18-22, 2011]

The Failure of Failure in Terriers

The Failure of Failure in Terriers
by Jason Mittell

"It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation ...
by Ryan Bowles

Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial

Losing to Win: Twin Peaks and Serial "Failure"
by Anne Moore

Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's ...
by Cory Barker

Dinner with Mavis: Reviewing The Tonight Show conflict

Dinner with Mavis: Reviewing The Tonight Show conflict
by Tom Hallaq

The Urban Catwalk: Fashion & Street Culture [April 11-15, 2011]

Disco Fever

Disco Fever
by Madison Moore

"Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken" and ...
by Julie Baumgardner

Ennui is Enough: The Art of Feigned Disaffection

Ennui is Enough: The Art of Feigned Disaffection
by Stefan Smith

Strike a (Masculine) Pose: Queering Hip-hop

Strike a (Masculine) Pose: Queering Hip-hop
by Scott Poulson-Bryant

Urban Prep: New Interpretations of American Prep

Urban Prep: New Interpretations of American Prep
by Alex Tudela

Autism in the Media [April 4-8, 2011]

Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live

Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live
by Steven Boyer

Primetime Portrait: The Depiction of Asperger’s on

Primetime Portrait: The Depiction of Asperger’s on ...
by Kaitlin Sweetman

Autism, Automaton, Alibi

Autism, Automaton, Alibi
by Samir Dayal

"Just the random musings of a former Playboy ...
by Emily Chivers Yochim

Autism in the Middle

Autism in the Middle
by Wendy Wagner

Media as Public Art [March 28 - April 1, 2011]

Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE

Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE
by Deke Weaver

The Big Toe on the Obelisk; or, the problematic of the Perverse in public art

The Big Toe on the Obelisk; or, the problematic of ...
by Anneka Herre

The medium is not the only message: making a case for the importance of content (and context) in media as public art

The medium is not the only message: making a case ...
by Micah Stansell

Immersive experiences

Immersive experiences
by Carla MacKinnon

The Threat of Insecurity and Isolation in Public Spaces

The Threat of Insecurity and Isolation in Public Spaces
by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat