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Going with the Flow: On the Value of Randomness, Flexibility, and Getting Students In on the Conversation, or What l Learned from Antoine Dodson
No full textIn this article the author discusses television studies and examines how various technologies, including Internet videos, video on demand options on television, and online social networks, have made it difficult for teachers in the field to define the scope of their discipline. The author focuses on ways in which individuals consume media has changed since the beginnings of television studies and comments on his belief that randomness and flexibility in television viewing can benefit both teachers and students in regards to the theories of television studies and the social and political elements of media scholarship
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
No full textIn this installment, JNP sits down with Anne Helen Petersen - senior culture writer for Buzzfeed and the author of the recent book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman – to talk about balancing academic and journalistic writing, managing the role of the public intellectual in the age of social media, and why cultural criticism matters. You can access Anne Helen Petersen’s work for Buzzfeed here. To find out more about her books, click here
Journalism as Activism: A Conversation with Adrienne Russell
No full textIn this installment, JNP sits down with Dr. Adrienne Russell to talk about the changing worlds of both journalists and activists as they engage the intersection of emerging technologies and pressing social problems. Adrienne Russell is the Mary Laird Wood Professor of Journalism and the Environment at the University of Washington, and the author of two books: Networked: Contemporary History of News in Transition, and Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power
“Everybody Should Be Podcasting”: A Conversation with Michael O’Connell
No full textIn this installment, JNP sits down with Michael O’Connell to talk about the role of podcasting in journalism, the changes that digital platforms have brought to the work of journalism, and the value of journalism in the digital media environment. Michael O’Connell is the host of the podcast It’s All Journalism and the author of the book Turn Up The Volume: A Down and Dirty Guide to Podcasting (Routledge 2017). O’Connell is also the senior digital editor at Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C
Antisocial Media: A Conversation with Siva Vaidhyanathan
No full textIn this installment, JNP sits down with Prof. Siva Vaidhyanathan to talk about his latest book, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. The conversation delves into questions of how Facebook positions itself as a social good while its very structure provides a platform – unprecedented in its size and scope - for the manipulation of political discourse and the widespread circulation of misinformation. Prof. Vaidhyanathan is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship. He is the author of several other books, including The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry), and he also serves as a columnist for The Guardian
Making it Strange: Videographic Criticism with Prof. Jason Mittell
No full textIn this episode, JNP talks with Jason Mittell, Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College in Vermont. Author of several key manuscripts on television culture, Prof. Mittell is also a key figure in the development of videographic criticism in film and media studies. He and his colleague, Prof. Christian Keathly, have since 2015 offered several two-week intensive workshops on videographic criticism for scholars. Our discussion focused on the history of videographic criticism, its roots in avant garde film and video work, its connection to the digital humanities, as well as current practices and pedagogies.
For more on videographic criticism, you can visit the website The Videographic Essay: Practice and Pedagogy (http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/index).
You can also see examples of published videographic criticism at [in]Transition (http://mediacommons.org/intransition/).
And check out Jason’s own videographic work on his Vimeo channel. (https://vimeo.com/jmittell).
As a special treat, you can watch Jen Proctor’s remake of “A Movie” by Bruce Connors right here. (https://vimeo.com/11531028).
And have a listen to The Video Essay Podcast (https://thevideoessay.com/work), hosted by Will DiGravio
Transparency is the New Objectivity: An Interview with Indira Lakshmanan
No full textJNP sits down with Indira Lakshmanan to discuss the problem of fake news, the difficulty of reporting on politics in the era of President Trump, the erosion of trust in the news media, and how that trust might be re-established. Indira Lakshmanan is a Washington DC-based columnist for the Boston Globe, writing about foreign policy and politics, and the Newmark Chair for Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute. You can read her most recent work at https://www.bostonglobe.com/contributors/ilakshmanan
Center Points - Jim Brown, former Dean of the School of Journalism at IUPUI
No full textJonathan Nichols-Pethick sits down with James Brown, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the School of Journalism at IUPUI, to talk about the future of journalism education
The Dynamics of Local Television in Beyond Prime Time
No full textThe history of broadcast television in the United States has been written primarily as the history of network television and network-derived programming. Even as we transition into a post-network era, the major networks have continued to be the centerpieces of critical and public attention. The Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), along with FOX, then UPN and the WB (later merged and renamed the CW), get the lion’s share of attention in light of their high profile, prime-time programming and (in the case of the Big Three) large, historically and culturally significant news divisions. The centrality of networks in the critical and public imagination should come as no surprise. Despite recent inroads made by cable networks, programs owned, financed, and distributed by the major networks still claim higher ratings than programming on cable networks. As recently as January 14, 2009, the top-rated cable network program was an episode of Monk on the USA Network, which ranked 55 out of 100, with a 3.1 rating for total households. The top 54 shows, and all but seven of 56 through 100, aired on a broadcast network. What this means is that more viewers in the US experience television via the major broadcast networks than by any other means. What is too often lost in this equation, however, is that most of this network television is accessed via local stations affiliated with the networks in question
Antelopes and Jaguars: A Discussion with Riley Ray Robbins
No full textJNP talks with Riley Ray Robbins, a Development Executive at Back Roads Entertainment, about the varied roles of reality television in contemporary television culture - as it relates to the current wave of high-end production, the politics of representation, the current state of the media industries, and the not-so-surprising spectacle of modern politics
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