2018 marks the 16th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media (JAM) conference for postgraduate researchers, organised by the Department of Film, Theatre and Television at the University of Reading. This year, JAM will take place on 15 June 2018, at the University of Reading.
The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its eighth annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2018 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects.
Maybe it’s a sign of true equality in television when a woman writer gets a truly terrible drama screened on prime time, mainstream tv. But it’s a bit galling when the woman is one of British television’s most esteemed writers, Kay Mellor, and I am one of the target audience.
Ever since Feud aired in the U.K., just in advance of the main revelations concerning Harvey Weinstein and the collective activities of the #METOO movement in Hollywood, I have been wondering about the status of that classical narrative, the female celebrity catfight, in modern times.
Too often the joys of binge watching are only attributed to two types of people; those who are embracing a moment of solitary extreme laziness, or who are watching the new entire season of the newest thing RIGHT NOW AND TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS so as to talk to their friends about it. Recently I’ve discovered a third type of binge watcher – the breastfeeder.
“SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.
Doctoral Summer School 2018 Where: *Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media & Communications, UK. When: *4th-6th July, 2018 (Start: Wednesday 4th July 9am – End: Friday 6th July 5pm). For whom: Doctoral students at all stages of their research and early-stage post-docs.
When Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett hatched the idea for a book on TV Horror in the early 2000s, they had only a sense that by the time the book was published in 2012 there would be many more horror TV series to watch, write about, and discuss. In this follow up to TV Horror , the first full-length examination of horror on television, they take aim at global TV horror.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University), &
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you king. — Bob Dylan, ‘Sweetheart Like You’ from Infidels (1983) Saturday, 20 January 2018, marked the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency. Americans woke up to a federal government in shutdown mode. Hard core Trump supporters had voted for him to defibrillate the body politic.
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.
