Episode 57: What Happens When People Feel Strongly About Stuff

This episode features a Fan Studies Roundtable: what can Fan Studies tell us about our current political and cultural moment, and what is the state of Fan Studies within the discipline today? Then we bring you interviews with two more SCMS 2020 award winners, Rachel Webb Jekanowski (Best Dissertation) and Pansy Duncan (the Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award). Finally, Chris and Michael banter about what they are watching, while Michael denies being a cat and/or French.

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Talking Television in a Time of Crisis, Episode 11: Optics

This episode is dedicated to the late Jane Feuer. Find out how to donate to the “Jane Feuer Graduate Student Award” here.

In this episode, Mimi White hosts a conversation on television optics, beginning with discussion of the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021. Questions include: How does television seek to manage social and political crises around the world? How does television manage its own internal crises (of representation and of legitimation) in such a precarious cultural moment and climate of unrest?

Guest Scholars: Eva Hageman (University of Maryland College Park), Darnell Hunt (UCLA), Melissa Phruksachart (University of Michigan), Brenda Weber (Indiana University), Mimi White (Northwestern University)

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Talking Television in a Time of Crisis, Episode 10: Economics

Episode 10 of our special series “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis” is here: Economics. How has the business of television, from streaming to legacy media, changed in 2020? How can we rethink notions of value in the industry that might contest capitalist modes of production and consumption?

Host: Miranda Banks (Loyola Marymount University)
Guest Scholars: Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics), Melanie Kohnen (Lewis and Clark College), Al Martin (University of Iowa), and Alisa Perren (University of Texas, Austin).

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Talking Television in a Time of Crisis, Episode 9: Tactics

Our special series “Talking Television” is back for a second season, now as “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis”! In this second episode, we discuss tactics: How can we best analyze and address the power of television, particularly in times of crisis and controversy? How might we define a televisual activism—or is that a contradiction in terms?

Guest Scholars: Jonathan Gray (University of Wisconsin—Madison); Daniel Marcus (Goucher College); Quinn Miller (University of Oregon); Eve Ng (Ohio University); Samantha Sheppard (Cornell University)

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Episode 56: Fascinating Brain Matter (December, 2020)

Aca-Media is back with a series of fascinating conversations. First, we talk with Cara Dickason about her work on surveillance and teen girl media, the Graduate Student Organization and the Precarious Labor Organization, SCMS+, and more. Then we talk with two 2020 SCMS Award winners: Jinsook Kim, who won the Student Writing Award, and Allison Whitney, who won the Distinguished Pedagogy Award.

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Talking Television in a Time of Crisis, Episode 8: Politics

Our special series “Talking Television” is back for a second season, now as “Talking Television in a Time of Crisis.” In this episode we discuss how television manages, amplifies, and contains our collective anxieties about the election and about other political issues, and we ask: How can we best use television to promote democratic aims?

Guest Scholars:  Matt Delmont [Dartmouth College], Sarah Kessler [University of Southern California], Kayti Lausch [University of Michigan], Roopali Mukherjee [Queens College], Susan Ohmer [University of Notre Dame]

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Talking Television in a Pandemic, Episode 7: Series Summary

The organizers of the ”Talking Television in a Pandemic" series reflect on the previous six episodes, summarize key take-aways from these conversations, and look ahead to the coming months.

Speakers: Hunter Hargraves, Lynne Joyrich, and Brandy Monk-Payton

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Talking Television in a Pandemic, Episode 5: Pedagogy

THE FIFTH IN A SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES ON HOW WE ENCOUNTER, ENGAGE WITH, AND TEACH TELEVISION STUDIES IN THE WAKE OF THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC.

How do we teach TV today? What issues are emerging at this moment in the classroom? How has the social context and the virtualization of everyday life shifted the ways in which we reflect on and teach media? What can we do to support the mental and physical health of our students and colleagues, and how might that tie to media themselves? What can we do to ensure that our discipline is supported by university administrators in a time of so much uncertainty about the future of higher education?

Guest scholars: Bambi Haggins, Julia Himberg, Derek Kompare, Jacinta Yanders
Host: Julie Levin Russo

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Episode 54: Always Time for Humane TV

The start of something(s) new! Aca-Media continues remote broadcasting and introduces two new series for your listening – and streaming? – pleasure. First is a sneak peek of “Talking Television in a Pandemic,” a new series launching right here on Aca-Media, where television scholars Hunter Hargraves, Lynne Joyrich, and Brandy Monk-Payton discuss what it means to watch TV during the pandemic. Touching on everything from epistemology to pedagogy, this series will launch right here in your podcast feed, so don’t miss it! And not to be outdone, Chris begins an exciting new segment of Aca-Media and starts interviewing this year’s SCMS Award Winners, giving them a chance to claim the spotlight! This time we talk with Alisa Lebow, Patrick Brown, and Eliza Steinbock about their innovative and exciting scholarship and media projects.

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Episode 53: Just a Plain Curiosity

SCMS is cancelled but the content rolls on! This episode of Aca-Media brings you a fascinating interview with Paul Taberham about animation and the avant-garde, including some great tips for teaching difficult media. Then Ryn Marchese discusses the amazing work being done at the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. Finally, Chris and Michael banter about how they are spending their self-isolation.

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