‘Fanfiction and the Author’ Gives Well-Blended Discourse for Maximum Fan Enjoyment
Scholar Judith May Fathallah's work blurs lines between author and ethnographer, fan experiences and genre TV storytelling.
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Google’s Burger Emoji: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
To those who would deny the Google burger because it's messy, I say, get a napkin and get over it.
Take It on the Chin: Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast in Print
Waiting for the Punch an engaging read of excerpts from the WTF Podcast, shows that "(E)veryone’s journey to the bottom is different."
#EverythingGetsAThumbsUp: How Avidity Has Overtaken American Culture
An oh-so-brief and intentionally broad characterization of American life in these times of the Avidity Epidemic.
Can Satire Provoke Real Change in a Nation Divided by Humor?
We may be one nation in America, but today we appear to be living on different planets, as we are divided by humor, among other things.
Fans Killed the Magic of Mystery in Hollywood Films
The Force is no longer mysterious. We've demanded to know everything about Logan’s history at the expense of his mystery. Hollywood complies. The magic is dead.
Can You Believe It?: The ‘No Such Thing As a Fish’ Podcast
The researchers behind BBC's QI emerge from behind the scenes to inform, entertain and tease via their award-winning podcast, No Such Thing As a Fish.
Dogs, Dialectics, and Academy Awards
Controversies involving A Dog's Purpose, The Birth of a Nation, and Last Tango in Paris reveal that access to more offscreen information can lead to greater accountability.
On Wandering the Paths of a Spotify Analyst’s Mad Music Map
Every Noise's curious constellation will fascinate even the casual listener, but its data madness is a puzzle.
Negotiating Technological Creep
Mind-blowing TVs, dog poop dropping drones, and other thoughts from the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show.
Community and Collaboration in ‘Battle for Wesnoth’
The one part of gaming that can lay claim to true, untarnished ‘freeness’ is the open-source world, where other incentives besides profit drive creativity.
Was Your iPhone Produced by Slaves? Has It Made You One, As Well?
Media scholar Jack Linchuan Qiu argues that slavery-like conditions, which define digital media workers, mirror the slavery-like obsessions of consumers.