Archive for the ‘Meta-blogging’ Category
A Bit of Good News
It’s been more than two years since I posted to this blog, but I’m back with some good news. Obviously, it’s been a not-great couple of years of silence, although comparatively I have little to complain about personally or professionally. Things have sucked, but far less for me than for many people. But for 2022, […]
Filed under: Academia, digital humanities, Meta-blogging, Publishing, Sabbatical, Television, Videographic Criticism | 1 Comment
Tags: breaking bad, videocamp, videographicBB
Blogging in the New Year
Every year, WordPress sends users a Year-in-Review email highlighting all of your blogging over the past year. For 2015, my blogging consisted of… four posts. This made me sad. So even though I don’t typically do them, I’m making a New Year’s resolution to blog more. I’m not going to wait until I have a […]
Filed under: Academia, Meta-blogging, Publishing | 1 Comment
Tags: The Wire
Thoughts on Blogging for Tenure
I recently was contacted by Stephen Olsen from the MLA, who is coordinating a pre-conference workshop entitled “Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates” taking place on the 5th of January at this year’s convention. For the session, they are organizing a number of case studies of digital work […]
Filed under: Academia, Meta-blogging, New Media, Not Quite TV, Publishing, Technology | 7 Comments
Tags: digital publishing, MLA
Birthday Blogging
Today, Just TV turns five years old, having launched in November 2006, on Middlebury’s installation of MoveableType. It moved here to WordPress a few months later, the digital equivalent of becoming potty trained -managing spam on MoveableType definitely felt like changing diapers! Since launching, I’ve accumulated 268 posts, 1,365 comments (and exponentially more spam), and […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Meta-blogging, New Media, Not Quite TV, Publishing | 6 Comments
August was quite a month for me personally, precluding any blogging here – moving to Germany and adjusting to life abroad has been my primary occupation (as documented on our family blog). I’m not acclimated enough to understand German television sufficiently to blog about it (although I did learn the word Schnabeltier from my kids […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Meta-blogging, Publishing | 10 Comments
Tags: Mad Men
Recently, I’ve read, heard & conversed about a range of issues involving the academic job & publication markets, the relative merits of particular topics & approaches to research, and the risks & rewards of making your work-in-progress public. In thinking & talking through these issues, I’ve referenced a number of personal anecdotes and experiences from […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Meta-blogging, Middlebury, Publishing, Television | 5 Comments
It’s been a summer of minimal blogging, what with various family plans, media consumption, and household tasks. I do have a number of posts in the planning stage, and a longer essay drafted that will appear here soon. But yesterday a bit of news arrived that mandated a return to blogging. The Library of Congress […]
Filed under: Academia, Copyright, Fair Use, Meta-blogging, Technology | 3 Comments
Tags: DMCA
Critical categories
Warning: meandering think piece ahead with minimal coherence or argumentation. Proceed at own risk. One topic that has been on my mind lately is the role of criticism in a digital media environment. My open browser tabs have mimicked this mind set. Some are simply examples, especially in the ritual of reading weekly Lost reviews and conversations. […]
Filed under: Academia, Film, Media Studies, Meta-blogging, New Media, Television | 12 Comments
Tags: criticism
Lost on another blog
So thus begins season 6 of Lost. I give “LA X” two big thumbs up (one in 2004 & one in 2007!), but to read why, you need to go over to Antenna, a newish online venture out of my graduate alma mater, University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Media & Cultural Studies program. The goal […]
Filed under: Academia, Meta-blogging, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows | 7 Comments
Tags: Lost, Nielsen ratings
Twitter ambivalence
I joined Twitter this past Spring, in large part because I saw the great usefulness of the platform at a conference – I was at MIT6 and surrounded by people having backchannel conversations via Twitter. So I joined on the spot, and spent a few months trying to figure out how it fits my own […]
Filed under: Meta-blogging, New Media, Technology | 13 Comments
One of the most interesting, exhausting, frustrating, and exciting things you can do as a faculty member is serving on a search committee–interesting to see the broad range of work that emerging scholars are doing, exhausting from the time it takes to read hundreds of files and conduct lengthy interviews, frustrating because in the end […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Meta-blogging, Middlebury, New Media, Teaching, Vermont | 55 Comments
Tags: job search
Listen to me babble
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 […]
Filed under: Media Studies, MediaCommons, Meta-blogging, Middlebury, Narrative, Teaching, Television | 1 Comment
Tags: Battlestar, podcast, The Wire
I stumbled across this article via Google Alerts discussing the varying practices within Wikipedia. I discovered it because one of the examples it uses is… my Wikipedia entry: Jason Mittell’s case is similar. His biography concludes with some quotes from a New York Times article in which he defended Wikipedia against the charge that it […]
Filed under: Meta-blogging, New Media, Not Quite TV | 5 Comments
Burning up the internets
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 […]
Filed under: Meta-blogging, Middlebury, Technology, Television, TV Shows, TV Textbook | Leave a Comment
Tags: planet forward, Self-Promotion
A New Day
I graduated from college in 1992, a few months before President Clinton’s election. It was in the midst of a recession under Bush #1, and most of my generation felt alienated from the previous 12 years of Reagan/Bush. With Clinton’s win, we were overjoyed with hope and possibility, the feeling of relief that washed over […]
Filed under: Media Politics, Meta-blogging | 1 Comment
Tags: election, president obama
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