Justifying David Simon

11Apr12

Last week, the TV-themed corners of the Internets were all atwitter around a pair of interviews David Simon gave, first to The New York Times, then to Alan Sepinwall at HitFix. I won’t try to summarize them fully, but I did want to weigh in on one of Simon’s core arguments about the place of episodic criticism. […]

Filed under: Narrative, New Media, Television, TV Shows, Viewers   |  6 Comments
Tags: criticism, justified, Lost, The Wire

Flow roundtable on TV criticism and digital publishing

29Mar10

I am working on proposing a roundtable for the 2010 Flow Conference on the topic of digital publishing and television criticism, building on some of the thoughts explored in my recent post. If you’re not familiar with the Flow Conference, the idea is that instead of formal papers, there are roundtable structured conversations from invited and […]

Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, New Media, Television   |  2 Comments
Tags: conferences, criticism, publishing

Critical categories

02Mar10

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