Archive for the ‘TV Textbook’ Category
Like most people I know, I’m sad, angry, and numb in reaction to the massacre of children and their teachers on Friday. While I feel helpless to affect change in a meaningful way, I do what I can via the small contributions to organizations like the Sandy Hook School Support Fund and the Brady Campaign […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Politics, Media Studies, Television, TV Textbook, Videogames, Viewers | 12 Comments
Tags: cultural studies, media effects, media violence, violence
For anyone keeping track, this blog’s hiatus is a sad signal that it’s been a busy couple of months for me re-entering to real life in Vermont, what with teaching, chairing my department, taking care of lots of personal projects, and obsessing over the election. (And thankfully, Super Storm Sandy had little personal impact on […]
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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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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 […]
Filed under: Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Television, TV Industry, TV Textbook | 6 Comments
Tags: abc, disney
New book on its way!
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 […]
Filed under: Books, Teaching, Television, TV Textbook | 1 Comment
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 […]
Filed under: Teaching, Television, TV Textbook | 15 Comments
Tags: Self-Promotion
From Flow to Files
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 […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, New Media, Teaching, Technology, Television, TV Textbook | 1 Comment
Tags: dvds, dvrs, home video, media history, time-shifting, tivo
Explaining Digital Television
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 […]
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Medium theory
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 […]
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Debating Media Bias
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 […]
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Copyright and Television
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 […]
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Just TV 