Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has since extensively been employed to transport and mediate history in manifold ways.

Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” is the gift that enigmatically keeps on giving. An avowed overstatement for polemical purposes, Mulvey’s essay, as she had hoped, was and remains a springboard for discussing sexism in the media. Recently, because of the Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs.

It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant Comcast, disrupting the cosy deal that the Murdoch and Disney groups had planned. The second was Sky’s own doing: to offer Netflix subscriptions on the Sky and Now TV platforms… which now incorporate voice recognition. One is a fascinating business saga that will impact on user choice in the long term.

This is a follow up to my last post for CST . Given that this is a blog about television it seems only fitting to begin with a brief recap: Previously On Quantitative Studies in Television… In my previous post I described some of my early attempts to analyse television at scale using some widely-available software and a few simple lines of code.

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer with 300 Oscar nominations, has fallen. After The New York Times revealed decades of accusations of sexual harassment involving a string of actresses, including high profile names such as Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Cara Delevingne, Weinstein was sacked from his own company.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Internet Television – A Media Industries special section Issue 13, September 2018 – http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org Editors: Ramon Lobato, RMIT University – ramon.lobato@rmit.edu.au Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan – lotz@umich.edu Julian Thomas, RMIT University – julian.thomas@rmit.edu.au In recent years major over-the-top subscription services including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have been expanding into

Viewing practices in the age of second screens Watching television has always been a social activity. Recently, audience practices have been changing with the introduction of new forms of media technologies such as smartphones and tablet computers. Audience members have the option to log onto the Internet anytime and anyplace – even while watching television.

Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black (OITNB) (2013 –) has gained a reputation for unabashedly screening female faces and body-types that centric media often overlooks. From its opening sequence, OITNB spotlights a vast array of female bodies.

First it was a river. Then it was a bookstore. Then it sold power drills and pen refills. Now it’s a movie studio inviting one and all to submit scripts and videos?