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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