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American Overabundance and Cultural Malaise: Melancholia in Julia Kristeva and Walter Benjamin

Mary Caputi in Theory & Event 4:3 2000

Benjamin, the televisual and the "fascistic subject"

"Allen Meek's concern is with how television may be said to produce Walter Benjamin's concept of the "fascistic subject" --Ina Bertrand (Editorial)

Black Cultural Studies

"The now five-year old Black cultural studies site was set up because of a lack of resources on the internet around questions of ethnicity, race, and gender among populations of the African diaspora."

Blood Sacrifice and the Nation

Carolyn Marvin and David W. Ingle. " We argue that both sectarian and national religions organize killing energy by committing devotees to sacrifice themselves to the group. We also explore the ritual role of media in propagating national religion."

Communications vs. Cultural Studies: Overcoming the Divide

By Douglas Kellner. " I shall discuss a current disciplinary crisis in the study of media communications that has emerged from its bifurcation into two separate domains, the fields of mass-mediated communication contrasted with cultural studies."

Conditions of their Own Making:

An Intellectual History of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham - Norma Schulman (George Mason University

Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture

A thematically based cultural studies journal. The primary focus of the journal is upon screen media; but our understanding of 'media' also includes publishing, broadcasting and public exhibitionary media such as museums and sites.

Cultural Appropriation and Subcultural Expression: The Dialectics of Cooptation and Resistance

For a decade or so it has been commonplace in academic presentations of film and video analysis to show clips (just as art historians show slides). It is now possible to store and retrieve articles with clips on the Internet and the World Wide Web. In a few years much scholarship of this kind will be electronically published, and student film and tv analysis "papers" will routinely include clips. ] - Chuck Kleinhans

Cultural Criticism and the Politics of Selling Out

Michael Bérubé

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

Authoritative selections of articles from the venerable eserver

Cultural Studies and Web Research in Composition

"Using examples of web research results, this text discusses problems with the quality of information retrieved and the cultural implications of these problems. I explore questions raised about information and advertising on the web, as well as the possibilities and contradictions of employing a cultural studies approach in the networked classroom." by Michelle Sidler

Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy

by Henry A. Giroux (Penn State University) "I want to explore not only why educators refuse to engage the possibilities of cultural studies but also why scholars working within a cultural studies framework often refuse to take seriously pedagogy and the role of schools in the shaping of democratic public life."

Famed Psychic's Head Explodes

"James Carey on the Technology of Journalism" by Carolyn Marvin, author of When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century.

Gender And The Web

by Keng Chua. "What I want to do in this webtext is to locate the gender discourses surrounding the Web and to explore some issues relating to the design, organization, control and use of the web as a gendered space and facility."

Life on Animal Planet

"Animal Planet documentaries offer a disturbing mirror through which to view the pathologies of our current social reality." Mark Andrejevic (U. Iowa)

Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural

"Formations in the Late Age of Print" by Nancy Kaplan about the complex relations between technologies and cultural formations.

Reality TV is Undemocratic

"In its broadest sense, the term “democratic” is invoked to indicate that the public has been given a choice of some sort, or even more generally that it has been provided with the opportunity to “participate.” Are the limited forms of engagement that Reality TV provides truly “democratic”? -- Mark Andrejevic (U. Iowa)

Semiotics for Beginners

Daniel Chandler, lecturer in media theory at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth wrote this hypertext primer. Topics: signs, paradigms and syntagms, syntagmatic analysis, paradigmatic analysis, denotation and connotation, metaphor and metonymy, codes, intertextuality, strengths of semiotic analysis, criticisms of semiotic analysis, D.I.Y. semiotic analysis. See also:Sites of Significance for Semiotics

Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News

"Technology's Impact on Journalism" by Ellen Hume "The fundamental values of both journalism and politics are being challenged, in part because of the new technologies. Their problems--and their revitalization--are inextricably linked. The future of both depends on how effectively they can revive their core standards and regain the public's trust."

Total Information Awareness - The Media Version

By Mark Andrejevic (U. Iowa) "Commercial broadcasting has, from its inception, been about monitoring viewers; this is why the history of the ratings industry has become entwined with that of military and police surveillance."

Watching TV Poker

Mark Andrejevic (U. Iowa) considers the cultural logic of the recent surge in televised poker tourneys

Watching TV Without Pity

"ip-on-your-favorite-show sites elevate the attempt to make bad TV more entertaining to a popular art form. In the Television Without Pity world, the show is no longer the final product, but rather the raw material to which value is added." --Mark Andrejevic (u. Iowa)

What a Long, Bad Trip It's Been

The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV's "One Bad Trip" become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who's watching, and who's performing? By Mark Andrejevic (U. Iowa) in Flow 3:8, 2005.