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.
In a world of increased professional mobility, which often transplants scholars internationally for various lengths of stay, I have always felt myself at home with television. No matter where I moved – access being less of a problem today than ever before, I found a way to reconnect with what I loved, explore what is new, and understand the culture (and its misrepresentations) with a little help of my screen friends.
Call for Papers TABOO AND THE MEDIA Bertinoro, Italy – September 20th-22nd, 2018 In a world that seems continuously to be pushing the envelope of what is acceptable to the inhabitants of specific linguistic and cultural contexts, this interdisciplinary conference acknowledges the importance of investigating taboos and their reinforcement/breaking in various areas of language, culture and society, and across different
The “Stars and Screen” Film and Media History Conference is an Interdisciplinary Symposium dedicated to Film History, Archival Research, Cinema and Media History.
Abstracts and submissions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives welcome.