Premiering in May 2015, Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot (USA Network), tells the story of a cybersecurity engineer/computer hacker, who is recruited by a cyber-anarchist movement called ‘fsociety’. The movement’s mission: to eradicate all consumer debt through destroying the data records held by the fictional conglomerate, ‘E Corp’. Over the course of the series, we follow the show’s protagonist, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), who, as we learn,
The current outbreak of Coronavirus is certainly scary, and very serious for those affected by it. But thank goodness it is not, so far, anything like as apocalyptic as the global pandemic that formed the premise for Survivors (BBC 1975-7). In it, the Welsh science fiction screenwriter Terry Nation imagined an accidental spillage of a new strain of a flu-like virus in a Chinese laboratory.
Gosh – aren’t there a lot of books about Doctor Who (1963-1989, 1996, 2005-)? Admittedly, that’s a thought which I had recently when standing looking at a wall in Galaxy 4, a shop in Sheffield that for 26 years has been specialising in the sale of Doctor Who -related merchandise to the world in general and my wife and myself in particular, but, nevertheless, you suddenly realise how the sheer volume of volumes – even for a
Call for Chapter Proposals: The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities Gavin Miller, Anna McFarlane, and Donna McCormack (eds). The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities will be a key intervention, analysing and exploring the fruitful intersection between science fiction and the field of the medical humanities.
Ecstatic Truth V: The Age of the Absurd 27-28th April 2020 (in conjunction with Under_the_Radar, Vienna) plus 29th April – Under_the_Radar symposium, Vienna Call for papers deadline: 16th February 2020 Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium that explores issues arising from the interface between animation (in all its forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as […]
New Directions in Media and Sociology Research (NDiMS) conference 2020 Gender, Equality and Voice 20 March 2020 | School of Media, Communication & Sociology (University of Leicester). Keynote speakers (confirmed): Dr. Ruth Lewis (University of Northumbria), Dr. Jilly Kay (University of Leicester) Despite decades of social change, the challenge for gender equality remains extremely topical.
organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Nowadays we live and breathe media, minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour. News, television, social media, celebrity culture, music, and more.
As the new decade dawns, Disney, Apple, WarnerMedia, and NBCUniversal have launched (or will soon launch) their own streaming platforms. These entrants prove once again that the ecology of television and digital content is one that continuously shifts, raising the question: Is a streaming war in full swing? With legacy media companies and major technology companies entering the ring, has the streaming arena now become too crowded?
Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline? This conference will be a space where we can come together to set the agenda for television research and education.
It’s a whole new world starting in November [2019]. — Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, speaking at the Royal Television Society Conference in Cambridge, England on 20 September 2019 (O’Connell 46) Netflix’s dozen-year run as the unassailable superpower in the brave new world of streaming is being seriously challenged for the first time beginning in late 2019 and now into early 2020.
