Listen to me babble

19May09

Just a quick pointer to a podcast: I had the pleasure of recording a podcast with Tim Anderson for his series The Lion’s Share. The series is a great project, opening up the hood on media scholars’ processes of writing, teaching, and thinking about media. Tim & I talked about the impact of the economy [...]

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Tags: Battlestar, podcast, The Wire

Lost In Media Res

13Feb08

Just a quick pointer to any Losties reading the blog – this week I’m participating in a series of Lost video commentaries at In Media Res. So far, Roberta Pearson has posted about the mobisodes, Will Brooker about the season 3 finale, and Stacey Abbott about shipping fanvids – coming soon are entries from Julian [...]

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Tags: in media res, Lost

Online Publishing and the Tenure Question

09Sep07

(cross-posted from MediaCommons blog – feel free to comment here or there)
A number of recent blog posts on MediaCommons have been discussing the issue of what blogging and other forms of online publishing “count” for in the academic system of rewards. I’m personally quite invested in these questions, as I am under review for tenure [...]

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A pair of serialized links

31Jul07

For you media studies academics, be sure to check out this new project on MediaCommons: Kathleen Fitzpatrick and I are overseeing a series of online anthologies called the MediaCommons Series Casefiles, designed to build scholarship of ongoing series (including television, comics, videogames, films, etc.). As per MC’s mission, we’re trying to reinvent scholarly publishing in [...]

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Tags: Lost

Lighting up the Internets

11Jun07

Just wanted to share a few links to some of my media mentions, as this morning saw the publication of 3 different stories that I contributed to. In The Boston Globe, there’s a nice piece about the endings of serial stories, inspired by The Sopranos and Harry Potter finales. Don Aucoin is one of the [...]

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