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Reactions toward disliked in-group media figures: The role of ethnicity on perceived social appearance Adolfo R. Mora / The University of Texas at Aus... 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Cartoon depicting perceived in-group TV exposure. Fervent affinity toward media figures (fictional or real) can stimulate repeated text exposure and fandom while disliked characters garner scanty aud...
The Black TV Crisis and the Next Generation Aymar Jean Christian / Northwestern University 27 Aug 2013 | 11:59 am
Lena Waithe’s Twenties is currently being shopped around Hollywood. In 2011 New York’s Diana Scholl asked Issa Rae if she was planning to turn her hit web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black G...
Tavi Gevinson and the Possibilities of Girls’ Popular Feminism Jessalynn Keller / Middlesex University (London, UK) 27 Aug 2013 | 11:58 am
Tavi Gevinson (center) at Slutwalk Chicago in 2011 Having spent the past two years working on a dissertation that analyzes the practices of girl feminist bloggers – girls between the ages of fifteen ...
Shamefaced: Reframing the Dove Real Beauty Sketches Li Cornfeld / McGill University 26 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
Attractive Convict The “Attractive Convict” meme emerged in early April. Its first iteration appeared on Reddit, where a user posted a woman’s mugshot, taken after a DUI arrest, under superimposed te...
Blessed Be the Peacemakers: TV Drama’s White Christianity a Decade After 9/11 Jorie Lagerwey/ University College Dublin 13 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
The Damages cast When I wrote about representations of religious characters on American TV drama in the years after 9/11, the narratives I encountered most often featured explicit and often violent c...
The Barest of Them All: The Personal Politics of Maron Kathleen Collins / John Jay College 13 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Marc Maron recording WTF In a recent essay about the demise of physical comedy, New Yorker writer Richard Brody described “today’s hyper-verbal comedians, who are rooted in standup, not in fall-down,...
Breaking the Country Mold: Non-Normative Masculinities in Nashville Jennifer Reinwald / University of Texas as Austin 13 Aug 2013 | 10:59 am
Promotional Photo of the Cast of Nashville Mainstream country music has evolved over the years from the early folk/country songs of Johnny Cash to more contemporary country as performed by singers su...
“I Like My Jesus Dressed Like Superman”: Niche Marketing and Man of Steel Matthew Krebs / University of Texas at Austin 13 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
The Adventures of Superman #500 depicts a resurrection. On June 10th of this year, the Warner Brothers’ Superman franchise was once again rebooted with the release of Man of Steel. It has, since then...
Naked and Afraid: (Wo)man Survives Reality Rebecca Provost / Utica College 13 Aug 2013 | 10:55 am
Naked and Afraid Promotional Photo The idea of reality TV has always been a controversial one. What is reality and how can it be depicted through the recording and editing of actual events? I do not ...
New hierarchies of TV broadcasting distribution: The case of Hispanic networks Juan Piñón / New York University 30 Jul 2013 | 08:27 am
National Networks The combined impact of Hispanic population growth, expectations about market opportunities, linguistic competencies, media viewing patterns, the cultural attachment to certain media...
