Teaching TV, Twitter, and my Textbook

10Sep09

The semester launched this week at Middlebury. Due to a little enrollment shuffling, I’m only teaching one course this semester: Television and American Culture. (I’ll certainly be sufficiently busy reading the hundreds of job applicants and actively working on the college website makeover project!) This is the first time through using my textbook, Television and [...]

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Tags: twitter

Burning up the internets

13Apr09

Just a couple of quick links & promotions before I carve out the time for a real blog post:
I had the pleasure and honor of doing an interview with Henry Jenkins about my new book, Television & American Culture. Today, Henry published the first part of the interview, with a very flattering introduction. I assume [...]

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Tags: planet forward, Self-Promotion

Fair Use Held Hostage by ABC-Disney

14Feb09

My textbook, Television and American Culture, has hit the streets (or at least the postal system – order yours now!). I received my first copy yesterday, and am happy to say that it looks great. This is due not to my own work (I’m solely to blame for the content), but the excellent staff at [...]

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Tags: abc, disney

New book on its way!

22Jan09

Observant visitors to the site might notice a new image on the right – the cover of my new book! Television & American Culture, the textbook I’ve been writing with intermittent furiousness for the past four years, has gone to press and will be released in mid-February. If you want to learn more, visit the [...]

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Preview of my Television & American Culture book

20Nov08

Update: The book is out – details on the Television & American Culture website.
A couple of people have asked me about my forthcoming book, Television & American Culture, which will be out this spring from Oxford University Press. Alas it may not be out in time for spring courses, unless it will only be used [...]

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Tags: Self-Promotion

From Flow to Files

18Jan08

Update: The book will be out soon – details on the Television & American Culture website.
As I’ve blogged before,  I’m in the process of writing a textbook called Television & American Culture. I’m close to being done, although I’ve been a bit stalled with other obligations. This January I’m putting my final push in to [...]

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Tags: dvds, dvrs, home video, media history, time-shifting, tivo

Explaining Digital Television

28Aug07

Update: The book will be out soon – details on the Television & American Culture website.
I just realized it’s been over a week of blog silence. The semester approaches, summer is waning, and I’ve been uninspired to write in a bloggy fashion. So I’ll share what I have been writing – continual work on my [...]

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Medium theory

13Aug07

Update: The book will be out soon – details on the Television & American Culture website.
In my continuing series of excerpting my textbook-in-progress, Television & American Culture, here’s a section I’ve been working on from the final chapter, Television as Technological Medium. The chapter as a whole outlines how we view TV as a technology, [...]

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Debating Media Bias

27Jul07

Update: The book will be out soon – details on the Television & American Culture website.
As I wrote about previously concerning television and copyright, my big writing project taking me away from blogging this summer is finishing off a draft of my textbook, Television & American Culture. I’ll continue to offer some previewed excerpts of [...]

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Copyright and Television

13Jul07

Update: The book will be out soon – details on the Television & American Culture website.
My major project for this summer is to finish (or come real close!) a draft of my textbook, Television and American Culture. The goal of the book is to introduce television through a topical structure, using six basic facets to [...]

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