“If academia has anything to do with the staying power of a media text (and for my own sake, I hope it does), The Wire will undoubtedly live on as a cultural touchstone for years to come.”
Video, podcast, and summary: “Women in Politics: Representation and Reality”
Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve to give us our first female president(s). What messages about women and power do these fictional representations of female politicians send?
Women in Politics: Representation and Reality
Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve. Political consultant Mary Anne Marsh and children/teens book author Ellen Emerson White look at the connections (if any) we can draw between representation and reality.
Podcast and summary: Heather Hendershot, “From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor”
The conservative William F. Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view.
From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
How did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Dissolve Unconference: A Summit on Inequality
Featuring social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: “How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?”
Podcast: Thomas DeFrantz, “Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture”
Thomas DeFrantz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
