In an economy of informational abundance, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
Podcast: Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Googlization of Everything”
Siva Vaidhyanathan suggests ways we might live better with Google once we see it as a mere company rather than as a force for good in the world.
Futures of Entertainment 4
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
Race, Politics and American Media
The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything?
“Fire, Lights, Everything!”: Exploring Symbolic Capital in the Tecnobrega Dance Scene
For media industries to benefit from their contributions it is first necessary to locate these audiences as active participants and producers of value.
Dis/Locating Audience: Transnational Media Flows and the Online Circulation of East Asian Television Drama
In examining the flourishing online fandom around the circulation of East Asian television drama, however, the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient.
Imaginaries of the Asian Modern
Within East Asia, a booming TV program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry.
