bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
CFP ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present, October 26-28, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present October 26-28, 2017 Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley at the Oakland Marriott City Center ASAP/9 invites proposals from scholars and artists addressing the contemporary arts in all their forms since the 1960s—literary, visual, performing, musical, cinematic, design, and digital.
BRIGHT LIGHTS – A TV FAREWELL TO CARRIE FISHER AND DEBBIE REYNOLDS
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

After the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in the last days of 2016, the release of a new documentary about their lives,

Bright Lights

(HBO, January 2017) feels serendipitous.
WHAT ACTORS DO: ADAM DRIVER IN GIRLS
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

Graduating from the Juilliard School as recently as 2009, Adam Driver is currently experiencing a seminal phase of his career with his mass exposure to a worldwide audience via

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

(J. J. Abrams, 2015). His breakthrough part has undoubtedly been Adam Sackler, ‘the sexually debased actor-carpenter-weirdo’ in

Girls

(HBO, 2012-present); a part for which he has
Mission performance
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Thanks to Karen E. Watkins (University of Georgia) and Maya Drobnjak (Australian Army).
SETTING THE TELEVISION SET SCENE
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

I am long overdue a new television set. To my embarrassment, my television set is second hand, occasionally cuts out and sits atop an ugly prefabricated television stand that clashes with the surrounding 1950s-era furniture.  I have considered purchasing a 1950s-era television set but it would not, of course, be WiFi enabled and internet-ready.
Death of the knowledge bank
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The complexity of the networks in which our organization operates is scaffolded by a corpus of mostly-unwritten, tacit knowledge and ‘ways of working’ that we learn mostly from our peers.
SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE: SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

Question: What do the popular sci-fi television series’

Farscape

(1999-2003) and

Orphan Black

(2013 – ) have in common? Answer: Neither featured in my undergraduate class ‘Science Fiction on Television’, but I can explain – I think.
LET’S TALK ABOUT TELEVISION. TELEVISION WATCHING AND THE SECOND SCREEN
Authors: Herbers Martin R
Published: November 2024

Viewing practices in the age of second screens

Watching television has always been a social activity. Recently, audience practices have been changing with the introduction of new forms of media technologies such as smartphones and tablet computers. Audience members have the option to log onto the Internet anytime and anyplace – even while watching television.
GENRE OUT OF THE BOX ON MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES: THE EVOLUTION OF A CRITIC, PART TWO
Authors: Nochimson Martha P.
Published: November 2024

Part Two:  Whose Show? [

Part Two of “

GENRE OUT OF THE BOX” delves further into the connection between genre and gender

]

In Part One, I explored the genre hybridity of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and began my inquiry into how the hybridity impacts on the construction of gender in the series,
CfP: “#LondonIsOpen: London as a Cosmopolitan City in Contemporary Culture” for Altre Modernità/Other Modernities. Deadline Oct 15, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

edited by Anna Viola Sborgi, Lawrence Napper and Nicoletta Vallorani

This issue of

Other Modernities

will investigate cultural representations of contemporary London, from the viewpoint of the present historical moment, looking back at how the perception of the city’s cosmopolitan identity has developed.
CfP: Media Industry Studies: Current Debates and Future Directions. London, Apr 18-20, 2018. Deadline: Sept 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

International conference hosted by the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London Jointly organized by: Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Media Industry Studies Interest Group, International Communication Association (ICA) Screen Industries Work Group, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) Media Industries and Cultural Production Section,
CFP: Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse, University of Western Brittany, 8-10 March 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse University of Western Brittany, 8-10 March
MOOCs for teachers, then and now
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In February, Daniel Seaton and his colleagues shared data about the very high level of teacher participation (28% identified as past or present teachers) and engagement (over four times more active in discussion forums than non-teachers) in a series of MITx MOOCs.  Very interesting article when thinking of teachers as multipliers, mediators and facilitators of learning (and not just transmitters). Unlike earlier MOOC research
Faster
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We need to learn faster, to deliver results faster. We find ways to accelerate knowledge development. And yet, although we acknowledge the need to focus on task completion, we accept that our shared learning takes time to build trust and deepen understanding before it can be turned into action.
FOYLE’S WAR – URGGH?
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

… is the kind of television I ought to disapprove of. It is ‘drama run by the costume department,’ as Rupert Murdoch once said of the ruling-class fantasies of grandiose UK period fiction.
FROM TV ONLINE TO ONLINE TV
Authors: Johnson Cathy
Published: November 2024

This time last year I spent a fascinating day at the BBC with my colleague Paul Grainge interviewing members of staff responsible, in various ways, for BBC iPlayer.
MEDIA CITY OF DREAMS-UK
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

It’s been over a year since I took up my post as Lecturer in Media Theory at the University of Salford, so I thought that this week I might say a little something about the gleaming edifice in which I now live and work: MediaCityUK. No, that’s not a typo; there is no space between ‘Media’ and ‘City’, and if you think there should be you are simply displaying your ignorance. We who operate at the heart of the media know best.
Behold! The glory of the Lego Giraffatitan
Authors: Taylor Mike
Published: November 2024

For our wedding anniversary last year (30 years!), Fiona gave me the very wonderful Lego 21320 kit, Dinosaur Fossils, which builds into impressive skeletons of

Tyrannosaurus

,

Triceratops

and

Pteranodon

. This is a truly great kit and I’d encourage anyone to go out and find one.
THERE’S ALWAYS WATER – WATER THAT SHOULDN’T BE THERE. REMEMBER ME (2014) AND THE HAUNTED SEASCAPES OF BRITISH TELEVISION
Authors: Fryers Mark
Published: November 2024

The promenade at Scarborough. A ghostly and malevolent female figure appears by the seafront, cloaked in a sari. The apparition of mysterious brine accompanies her presence and the art-deco seafront is covered in mysterious shells.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE WRINKLES GONE?
Authors: Baluch Jamila
Published: November 2024

Contemporary media culture seems to suggest that it is unacceptable for a woman to look her age if she is over twenty-five. Apart from the flood of anti-aging products and procedures advertised to ever younger audiences, another key indicator for this trend can be found in the female faces presented to us in popular television programmes.
JON STEWART BEYOND AMERICA – WHAT SATIRE TV CAN TELL THE REST OF US
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Daily Show (Image: Liz Giuffre) Jon Stewart’s work on The Daily Show has been an amazing international media ambassador for America. It’s been a token, yes, but proof that there is more substance and nuance to the global media powerhouse than Hollywood might otherwise have us believe.
Dialectics
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

4:35 p.m. “My working hypothesis is that the learning that matters is mostly incidental and informal.” “Maybe,” he smiled. “Yet, my conviction that we need to explore this is grounded in my formal training in knowledge management.” 5:17 p.m.  “When we are under-funded and overwhelmed,” he sighed, “is just not the right time to go off on a tangential project!” “I won’t argue with you.
SPARQL examples: SIB model, software, and patches
Authors: Willighagen Egon
Published: November 2024

Jerven Bolleman

et al.

recently published a great preprint about how to use RDF to give SPARQL queries context by linking it (semantically) with metadata. The context includes keywords, the SPARQL endpoint the query can be run against, and a human-oriented description of the query.
Scaling corporate learning
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

If you are interested in the strategic significance of educational technology for workplace learning, make sure that you do not miss the open, online symposium happening 18-19 June 2014. The event is organized by George Siemens and hosted by Corp U. I will be facilitating sessions with the World Bank and OECD, as well as presenting on partnerships between corporate and non-profit learning leaders to scale up humanitarian education.
From communication to education
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

There is of course an intimate relationship between communication and education. In many universities, both sit under the discipline of psychology. However, in most international organizations, these tend to be siloed functions.
How close to the village can a global, digital education initiative get?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the final in a series of five blog posts reflecting on what is at stake in how we learn lessons from the Ebola crisis that erupted in 2014 and continued in 2015.
HOLDING ONTO AIR
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

“I know you, I love you, and I can be your friend, I could follow you anywhere, even through solid air.”

John Martyn,

Solid Air

The holding onto air moment occurs when the scene set before one is so resolutely, ethically and morally ghastly, or is so uncomfortable to view, that one feels the need – the unstoppable, thoughtless urge – to reach out and hold onto the nothingness before one.
WHAT WE’VE (NOT) BEEN WATCHING
Authors: Wallace Richard
Published: November 2024

There has been plenty of discussion on this blog and elsewhere about the difficulty that many of us have as television scholars ‘keeping up with television’. It’s certainly something that comes up repeatedly as a topic of conversation in meetings of the Midlands Television Research Group.
WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART II)
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

Having previously considered the ways in which Alec Baldwin has his character Jack Donaghy run through the gamut of bad actor behaviour and bad acting in the

30 Rock

(NBC 2006-2013) episode ‘Jack-Tor’ (1.5), it is now time to address the question previously raised by Martin Esslin: ‘How, in fact, does a good actor act a bad actor?’ (1987: 72) In this follow-up, we will examine the ways in which Baldwin delivers his masterclass on bad
GIVE IT A WEEK, YOU’LL BE PISSING AND FARTING WITH THE REST OF US: BECOMING GROTESQUE IN ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Authors: Hancock Danielle
Published: November 2024

Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black (OITNB) (2013 –) has gained a reputation for unabashedly screening female faces and body-types that centric media often overlooks. From its opening sequence, OITNB spotlights a vast array of female bodies.
MEMORIALISING BBC2
Authors: Holland Pat
Published: November 2024

A furry number 2, perched on a neatly-draped table set with fruit and little cakes, peers at a bowl of strawberries. In the background birthday cards pinned to a cheerful yellow wall spell out the number 50.  But with its colourful balloons and table full of goodies, this is more like a nursery party than a marker of maturity.
OLD FORMATS DIE HARD
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

I like old things. When I was a teenager my granddad entrusted me with my great grandfather’s fob watch, and it always gave me a thrill to think that I was holding something of (it seemed at the time) inestimable age. It was probably only manufactured in the early twentieth century, but I carried it to school with pride;
NEARLY WORKING MYSELF TO DEATH
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: November 2024

I am at the end of my third month of sick leave after suffering an acute, stress-induced, asthma attack at the beginning of February, which resulted in an ambulance ride into A&E and an 8-day stay in hospital.
Online learning 101 for humanitarian managers and decision makers
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

I’ve just posted on LSi.io a comprehensive (65-minute) presentation intended for humanitarian managers and decision makers working in organizations without prior experience in online or distance learning. It includes numerous practical examples and case studies, as well as a description of the best available learning theory and best practice approaches most appropriate for the humanitarian learning context.
U.S. Advisory Board
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Prof. Gary R. Edgerton Butler University, Indiana USA Prof. Michele Hilmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Prof. Toby Miller Prof.
Mind the gap
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How do we establish a mentoring relationship? What do we do when we identify a knowledge or performance gap in a colleague? This is a sensitive issue. Pointing to a gap is more likely to lead to a productive process when mutual trust is a pre-existing condition. When we mentor a colleague, we rely on our relationships as peers and our shared values. We deploy a range of context-specific approaches.
KEN LOACH, THE PRESS AND THE BBC
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Ken Loach is surely the patron saint of British film and television studies – venerated for his early work with Tony Garnett and others for making British television drama a national event (fig 1); admired for the prizes (and finance) he has won in Europe; and respected for the way he continues to make films in his own way and following his own conscience into his eighties.
Call for Chapters: Nasty Women in Popular Culture (Deadline: August 1, 2017)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Donald Trump’s now infamous phrase ‘such a nasty woman’, uttered about his then rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates, was rudely used to patronise and belittle Clinton, who is known for being a strong, independent (and feminist) politician. In reality, Trump is not the only figure to characterise today’s women in this manner.
THE WOMAN BEHIND GOGGLEBOX: AN INTERVIEW WITH TANIA ALEXANDER
Authors: Marghitu Stefania
Published: November 2024

*This interview was edited for clarity. It was conducted via phone with e-mail followups.
WHAT ACTORS DO: JENNIFER ANISTON IN FRIENDS
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

So far in our blog strand, we have been looking at moments of performance that are quite noticeably (if not obviously)

about performance

in some way, where the actor demonstrates an impressive level of skill via their use of their own body (Robert Lindsay’s twitch in

G.B.H.

(Channel 4, 1991)) or an unusual prop (Charles Dance’s skinning of a deer stag in

Game of Thrones

(HBO, 2011-present)). Today, we wish to pay
CAN YOU TURN IT UP A BIT?: HEARING DIALOGUE IN MODERN TV DRAMA
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Television often has subtitles in my household and not just when we are watching Euro-dramas on BBC4. I hadn’t given much thought to this until I read an excellent article on the topic by Maggie Brown in the Royal Television Society’s magazine (Television, May 2016), entitled ‘Sounding off about the unheard’. I thoroughly recommend it, particularly to anyone who teaches film/video making.
Mentoring
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Fostering relationships that enable and sustain collaboration and inquiry requires building trust about both technical competencies and each person’s interest in dialogue. Therefore, two contexts require special attention. First, when newcomers come onboard to the team, they may or may not be familiar with the general organizational context or the specific working conditions.
CFP: International Media Education Summit, 15-17 June 2017, Segovia, Spain
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Join the International Media Education Summit (III INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIA EDUCATION AND DIGITAL COMPETENCE) in Segovia in June 2017.

Each year the summit brings together a global network of media educators and media literacy practitioners to share research, pedagogy and innovation on all aspects of media education, media literacy education and media / technology in education.
EASTENDERS: THE TRIANGLES OF ALBERT SQUARE
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

The first episode of

EastEnders

was broadcast on BBC1 on 19 February 1985. Created by Tony Holland and Julia Smith, the serial is set in the fictional London borough of Walford. It is shot on a purpose-built outside set at Elstree Studios and also interior television studios on the site. The task of the first episode of any soap is to introduce location, characters and storylines, and to set a tone for the drama.
CfP: Special Issue of the European Journal of American Culture: “American Horror Story”, Deadline: Sept 10, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Guest Editors: Harriet Earle, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Jessica Clark, University of Suffolk, UK This call for papers seeks submissions that engage with the television series American Horror Story (produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk) as part of a Special Issue for the European Journal of American Culture.
WAR FILMS FOR THE FACEBOOK GENERATION
Authors: Ramsay Debra
Published: November 2024

In a recent discussion about war on film and television (I probably steer discussions in this direction more often than my friends and family would like), a friend made the point that ‘war is war’.  I have been thinking about this phrase a lot recently.
Call for Chapters: The Leftovers. Deadline: August 1, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The editor seeks scholarly essays that address some aspect of HBO’s television series

The Leftovers

(2014-2017) and/or its source text, Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same title (2011)

.

Perrotta co-produced the series with show runner David Lindelof (

Lost

). Both novel and series are set three years after the “Sudden Departure” of 2% of the world’s population.
BBC CHRISTMAS SPECIALS, DOCTOR WHO AND SHERLOCK: SELF-EXOTICISM #2
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

The Christmas television schedules have, for many years, introduced a sense of the Carnavalesque to the viewing experience. Broadcasters, programmes, and family favourites collude in temporarily suspending the ‘normal’ laws and rules of television viewing through one-off storylines, and, in some cases, subverting perceptions of seriality in acknowledgement of a collective cultural ritual.
IF YOU WERE ME: TV CHILDHOODS ACROSS EUROPE AND BEYOND
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

In the current febrile atmosphere of the debate about whether the UK should be “in” or “out” of Europe, it is interesting to look back at how TV has shown and shaped our relationships with other countries.
TELEVISION REMOVALS
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

Television’s Daily Bread There will be different reasons for why the routine of viewing television will momentarily leave our day-to-day lives.
Call for proposals: Hands On History (ed. collection seeking a few additional essays), Deadline: July 10, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We seek proposals for a small number of original essays to include in Hands On History (eds. John Ellis and Nick Hall), an edited collection focusing on practical and embodied approaches to the history of media technology. The collection explores the relevance of the new methodology of hands on history to the study of media.
Bite-sized update: higher education in fragile contexts, discovery without analytics, and the epistemology of learning culture
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

As much as I wish this blog could document my reflections as I read, research, speak, and listen… it cannot. Knowledge is a process, not a product, in this VUCA world we live in. I know that I am doing too much, too fast, to be ale to process everything. Accepting this is part and parcel of navigating the knowledge landscape. So here is an incomplete round-up with some schematic thoughts about where I’m headed.
MAKE IT DIGITAL! BRINGING ‘OLD’ TV INTO THE MULTI-PLATFORM AGE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

I should probably state at the outset that this blog is not affiliated in any way with the BBC’s current campaign encouraging the nation to ‘get creative’ with all things digital, though byte-sized technology and the Corporation are very much my theme.
‘The Future of Public Service Media in Europe: Freedom, Independence and Media Relations with the State’
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

You are cordially invited to participate in a one-day symposium

‘The Future of Public Service Media in Europe: Freedom, Independence and Media Relations with the State’

, organised by the LSE Department of Media and Communications and supported by the Programme on Modern Poland, Collegium Civitas, the LSE Media Policy Project and Polis.
SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE CW
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

A few months ago the

LA Times

ran a piece entitled ‘Women at the CW work to keep sexual violence off their shows’. It detailed the discussions of the ‘Running the Show: The Women Executive Producers of the CW’ panel held at The CW Summer TCA Tour in August.
RE-WATCHING DOCTOR WHO: THE PLEASURE OF THE EPISODE
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

I’m now seven months into perhaps my most ambitious viewing marathon, the complete

Doctor Who

cycle, watched at the rate of one episode every day.
CLIFF RICHARD AND THE SPACES OF 1960s TV
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

The look of the stylish British spy and detective shows, filmed in colour in the 1960s, results from where and how they were made, and pop sensation Cliff Richard had a lot to do with it. The musical

The Young Ones

(d. Sidney J. Furie), starring Cliff, was shot at Elstree Studios near London in 1961, and a quite extensive backlot town was built for the film.
SKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING AT OSTERLEY
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch shareholders by Fox. This buyout is currently awaiting approval from Ofcom and the relevant minister. At least that isn’t John Whittingdale any more, but Karen Bradley is scarcely one to stand up to the all-powerful Murdoch machine.
BBC’S THE MUSKETEERS: ‘PRACTICED POUTS AND COMPLICATED PERSONAL LIVES’
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

I’ve always enjoyed action-adventure, especially swashbuckling action-adventure. Admittedly, though, when the BBC’s new drama

The Musketeers

(2014-) began last year I didn’t have high expectations. The BBC’s attempts at entertaining action series have been a little hit and miss, as the cancellation of

Atlantis

earlier this year and the rather short-lived

Robin Hood

(2006-2009) some years before.
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL? Evaluating the THE 2015 Workplace Survey
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

After my last blog on academic work culture almost brought the CST site down I was going to resort to less fraught ground today and write about the brilliance of Claudia Winkleman.
THE GOOD WIFE: WHAT WOULD ALICIA DO?
Authors: Murray Rona
Published: November 2024

As

The Good Wife

is drawing to a close after seven seasons in the U.K. [Note: As this blog appears in the UK the series has just finished in the US], I found myself wondering why it is that Alicia Florrick has become something of a role model in my life.
THE RETURN OF THE SURGEON? SOCIAL PATHOLOGY AND MEDICAL NOSTALGIA IN THE KNICK
Authors: Palatinus David Levente
Published: November 2024

Mapping medical television is a complicated task.
Emergencies kill learning habits
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We recognize that large-scale, complex emergencies have a dramatic impact on many aspects of our work, including what and how we learn. Some may feel, based on experience, that emergencies kill learning habits. We put

everything

on hold – including the things we do to stay current – to focus on the emergency response.
The hub in a network
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We sit at the hub of a distributed network. In the past, only some organizations sought to organize as networks – those that had to bring together, federate or otherwise affiliate disparate groups characterized by diversity. Today, an organization that does not distribute its functions is unlikely to leverage its network. Learning strategy therefore carefully considers how to decentralize the means while sharpening the aim.
WOULD JOHN FISKE USE A SECOND SCREEN? RE-READING TELEVISION CULTURE AND READING TELEVISION IN THE NEW MEDIA ENVIRONMENT OF 2017
Authors: Herbers Martin
Published: November 2024

Switching channels. Yesterday’s television theory– today. This year, television scholars celebrate the 30th anniversary of John Fiske’s seminal work Television Culture. Based on a thorough analysis of television programmes, Fiske uncovered the economic and societal implications of television as a cultural institution.
THE NEW BLACK: TATIANA MASLANY AND TV ACTING
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Canadian TV series

Orphan Black

(2013-) recently reached the end of its second season. The series airs on Space in Canada, BBC America in the US and BBC Three in the UK, as well as in other countries, and has been a flagship show for all three named networks.

Orphan Black

had an increase in audience share during the second season.
FACES AND LANDSCAPES: THE CHANGING LOOK OF TELEVISION DRAMA
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Episode 4 of the Icelandic drama

Trapped

(2015), currently showing on BBC 4, finished with a spectacular avalanche. The avalanche had been predicted by one of the characters who then triggered it in the hope of diverting it away from the town. But the event itself generated hardly any suspense about the fate of characters who might be caught in its path.
CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS, International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism July 27-29 2017 East Carolina University
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism July 27-29 2017 East Carolina University Greenville, NC Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
THE STATUS OF TV SCHOLARSHIP – AND WHAT WE COULD DO ABOUT IT
Authors: Palatinus Elke Weissman and David Leventes
Published: November 2024

Elke Weissmann starts, David Leventes Palatinus continues. Please feel free to chip in. A few years ago my wonderful supervisor, Christine Geraghty, asked me what my experience was of speaking to other academics about television. My experience was fine – people seemed interested and polite. They spoke about programmes that they enjoyed and compared their experiences to mine.
MAKING THE UNMISSABLE OWNABLE: ADVENTURES IN THE BBC STORE
Authors: Wallace Richard
Published: November 2024

Although starting its operations as a commercial venture in November 2015, the new online BBC Store has been under discussion for some time, gaining regulatory approval early in 2013. Its aim is to provide access to a wide range of BBC programmes for a fee.
Trust
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The strategies we use to anchor and filter rely on building trust in our working relationships. Learning together is grounded in a shared culture of openness and trust. For example, we trust each other to keep communication to the point. We mobilize different networks of trust, internal and external, based on need.
7 key questions when designing a learning system
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In the design of a learning system for humanitarians, the following questions should be given careful consideration: Does each component of the system foster cross-cutting analysis and critical thinking competencies that are key to humanitarian leadership? Is the curriculum standardized across all components, with shared learning objectives and a common competency framework?
THE HYDROGEN BOMB AND ME
Authors: Ramsay Debra
Published: November 2024

Recently I re-watched Battlestar Galactica.  No, not that one, but the 1978-1979 series that originally aired on ABC, complete with tinny Cylons, hysterically questionable ‘triad’ costumes and a ‘daggit’ named Muffy.  A while ago Kim Akass pointed out that she grew up alongside Dr Who.
Catch up on Scaling corporate learning event
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

On this page I will add links to the video and audio recordings of the Scaling corporate learning online symposium.
Panamanian chicken
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Why did the chicken cross the road? Lunch time, after a jet-lagged conference morning. Hand shakes and smiles, mingling Spanish and English. Forks and knives scrape plates as we skewer the plump, roast chicken. Within the first 90 seconds, I am being mandated or tasked to request funding immediately upon returning to headquarters.
Beyond the Visible: Contemporary Visualizations of Loss, Illness and the ‘Unseen’ in Representations of the Family, 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Northern Charter 5th Floor, Commercial Union House 39 Pilgrim Street Newcastle NE1 6QE Thursday 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm) [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dc483abffe68524470c37657e/images/3d21e6f9-554c-42a1-89e1-cf6cc3455632.jpg] Marjolaine Ryley ‘Gust of Wind’ 2014 Northern Charter and The Family Ties Network in association with NEPN present this study day, which considers how photography can create visual conversations about lived
CfP: Transmedia UK: Sector
Authors:   Sector, Nov 24, 2017 @Bath Spa University. Deadline: Sept 22, 2017.
Published: November 2024

Media Convergence Research Centre and Centre for Culture and Creative Industries Bath Spa University, Corsham Court Campus One-Day Academic-Industry Workshop: Friday 24th November 2017 Confirmed Industry Speakers: Alison Norrington, Creative Director at StoryCentral Ltd.
What does it mean to broker knowledge in a network?
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Our network function requires that we interact with the network. We observe profound changes in the nature of knowledge, how it circulates, and this affects how we work (learn). Members in the network, too, have changed. We struggle to keep up with and adapt to these changes. In working with them, we prioritize results against their own expectations as well as those of donors and governments.
TELEVISION WITH TEARS: THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

The recent General Election in the US shocked politicians, pollsters, political scientists, and progressives alike.

How did two absurd people end up as the principal parties’ picks

, and why will the most ridiculous

coiffure

since Jefferson’s enter the White House in January?
Teaching and learning in The Walking Dead (S05E14)
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In this episode, the young Noah has asked to meet with Reg, an elderly architect or engineer who had the know-how to build the wall that protects the community of Alexandria, which some believe has survived zombies and other predators mostly by sheer luck. Noah recognizes that it’s more than luck – and wants to Reg to pass on knowledge and expertise that is different from that needed only to avert death.
Education is the science of sciences
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“We want to talk about science as a certain kind of ‘knowing’. Specifically, we want to use it to name those deeper forms of knowing that are the purpose of education. Science in this broader sense consists of things you do to know that are premeditated, things you set out to know in a carefully considered way.
Applicability
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Applicability is the brick wall of formal training approaches. Not only do we first have to stop work to attend a training, but once the training is completed, the challenge is then to figure out how to apply what we learned to daily work. It is estimated that, on the average, applicability of a well-designed workshop using the best participatory methods (such as simulations, dialogue, problem-solving, etc.) is around ten percent.
STEREOTYPICAL DEPICTIONS OF IMMIGRANTS – THE CASE OF GERMAN ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
Authors: Herbers Dr. Martin R.
Published: November 2024

Stock characters in entertainment television are well known to all of us: the wise old man, the nurturing mother, and the rebellious teenager evoke images in our mind, accompanied by a set of character traits and flaws. They are stereotypical depictions of societal roles, which help us navigate through the story and set up certain expectations.
Mountain Men Season 13 Episode 8 Code Red Air Date
Authors: Frey Erzsebet
Published: November 2024

Mountain Men Season 13 Episode 8 Code Red Air Date

Mountain Men Season 13 Episode 8: “Code Red” Air Date

The much-anticipated Episode 8 of

Mountain Men Season 13

, intriguingly titled “

Code Red

“, is set to captivate its audience. Fans of the series are eagerly waiting to see what new challenges and adventures await the rugged outdoorsmen.
Tower of Babel
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

What happens when a fledgling, start-up foundation convenes learning leaders from all over the world to explore digital learning? Over 800 participants from 103 countries have joined the Geneva Learning Foundation’s #DigitalScholar course developed in conjunction with the University of Illinois College of Education and Learning Strategies International. The course officially launches on Monday.
ON THE ROAD TO SOMEWHERE
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

As I write, I’m on the road in Colombia from Barranquilla (see this impressive citizen journalist seeking to enter Shakira’s home there) to Cartagena de Indias, which Francis Drake briefly captured from the Spanish in 1586.
ROLES THAT ARE SIMPLY NOT THERE: DIVERSITY AND INTERSECTIONALITY IN CONTEMPORARY TELEVISION
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

I wasn’t going to write

another

blog about diversity—or the lack of it—in contemporary television. But when Viola Davis became the first woman of colour to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, during the same week that I met our new cohort of students, I changed my mind.
CFP: MEDIA MUTATIONS 9 – The Format Factor. May 23rd-24th, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Television Shows, Brands and Properties in the Global Television Scenario

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 23rd-24th, 2017

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Jérôme Bourdon, Jean Chalaby

Organized by Luca Barra and Paola Brembilla, in collaboration with Andrea Esser, the Media Across Borders network and the ECREA Television Studies section

Media Mutations, the international conference of
#DigitalScholar Reboot Day 1
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

On Monday, July 3rd 2017, an expanded course team from three continents, supported by LSi’s Scholar Apprentices, began to trial a completely new approach to the development of digital learning. This is the story of how we came to reboot the amazingly successful #DigitalScholar initiative offered by the Geneva Learning Foundation just one year ago.
NORMAL FOR NORFOLK? FEELING AN AFFINITY WITH A LONG-LOST REGIONAL SOAP
Authors: Snelson Tim
Published: November 2024

Normal for Norfolk or NFN – a pejorative shorthand allegedly used by local GPs to explain medical peculiarities that were deigned unexceptional for the county – has since, for some at least, become a term of endearment used to encapsulate the eccentricities of the region and its kin.
Conference Review: ‘I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV’. University of Salford, 21-22 May 2015
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

The University of Salford’s School of Arts and Media recently held a two-day conference dedicated to (re-)exploring the iconic early 90s series

Twin Peaks

(1990-1). The conference had a strong international flavour as academics from Australia, Scandinavia and the US, as well as around the UK, came together to consider the programme and it’s enduring appeal within the uber-modern location of Salford’s recently opened
SPACE AND PERFORMANCE: GERRY AND SYLVIA ANDERSON’S 1960s SCIENCE FICTION
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

Gerry and Sylvia Anderson began making puppet series for British television in the 1950s, and by the end of the 1960s, their company had made

Supercar

,

Fireball XL5

,

Stingray

,

Thunderbirds

,

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

and

Joe 90

. Anderson’s last puppet series of the decade was

The Secret Service

, blending live action with
ON NOT FEELING THE LOVE: ROM-COM SEXISM AND BINGE-WATCHING
Authors: Horeck Tanya
Published: November 2024

At some point during the first episode of Judd Apatow’s new Netflix series

Love

– co-written and co-produced with Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin – the show lost me: or rather, to be more precise, it

irritated

me, because in fact, it didn’t lose me at all.
POPPIES AND THE PASSING BELLS: REMEMBERING WWI ON TELEVISION
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

One thing is for sure: World War 1 is not going to disappear from our screens any time soon. It’s there on all channels from CBeebies and BBC3 to ITV and the more specialist Discovery and History channels. The BBC has entered into full public service mode with over 130 new commissions and over 2,500 hours of programming across four years.
Accidents happen
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Question: Why were you looking at their data? Answer: Just out of interest to see.
KEEPING TV IN PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

One of the challenges of returning to my parents’ for the weekend (as I write, the bank holiday is looming) is the inevitable evening trawl for something watchable on television via such channels as Drama or ITV3.
BAGGAGE: HOTEL ROOM TELEVISION
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

Hotel Television Room Blues

Baggage: Hotel Room Television

sounds as if it might be the title of a Ryan Adam or Johnny Cash love-struck ballad. A broken-hearted boy or girl returns to their transitory space to contemplate the end, caught in the slipstream of multi-channel viewing where every station reminds them of the lover just gone.
CSTONLINE RE-LAUNCH: PART 2
Authors: Akass Kim
Published: November 2024

Since

CSTonline

was last published at the end of June we have seen some seismic political shifts – the UK has voted to leave Europe in a total Brexit shocker, we have another female Prime Minister (let’s hope that’s all she has in common with the other one) and the US has just voted in a reality-TV star for President. Who would have thought that such huge changes would happen in a quarter of a year?
HOW TO STUDY TELEVISION
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

We’re fortunate in television studies. The exclusively formal, stylistic, and ideological attention paid to texts in literary studies has never been deemed sufficient in our field—the immensely social nature of TV, like cinema, has largely militated against such reductionism. Endless moral panics about learning, lust, and lawlessness have meant that technologies, audiences, and regulations have been necessary components of our agenda.
CFP: Queer Screens Conference 2017, 2-3 Sept 2017, Northumbria University
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017

September 2nd and 3rd 2017

The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Keynote speaker: Prof.
MORK, TALK AND THE ROBIN WILLIAMS OF TELEVISION
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

When Robin Williams died in August there was an outpouring of grief, disbelief and finally, celebration. While in recent years Williams’ television work may have been overshadowed by his film appearances (including academy award nominations and awards), it was the small screen with its continued intimacy, domesticity and interaction that showcased his talent following his death.
Making humanitarians
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The industry to tackle growing humanitarian and development challenges has expanded rapidly since the mid 1990s, but not nearly as fast as the scope and scale of the problems have spiraled. Professionalization was therefore correctly identified as a major challenge of its own, with over a decade of research led by Catherine Russ and others clearing the rubble to allow the sector to make sense of what needs to be done.
THE NIGHTLY SHOW: WHO’S WATCHING?
Authors: Duthie Lyndsay
Published: November 2024

It was a bold scheduling move on the part of ITV, the UK’s main commercial television channel.

Shifting the nightly news programme

to make way for Britain’s latest attempt at a US-style late night talk show was always going to be risky.
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE ‘LAST DAYS OF VIETNAM’
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

The burning question was who goes and who gets left behind. — Former U.S. Army Captain Stuart Herrington in the American Experience’s ‘Last Days of Vietnam’ Award-winning producer-director, Rory Kennedy’s latest documentary, ‘Last Days of Vietnam,’ dramatically recreates the chaotic endgame and resulting moral quandary that accompanied America’s involvement in the Second Indochina War.
IS THE RISE OF THE MEGA INDIE THE END FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TV?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The face of independent TV production in the UK has changed irrevocably. 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management together have taken over Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media and will transform them into the world’s first mega-indie.
FROM GRIMES TO GORDON: THE SEARCH FOR HEROES IN THE NEW WORLD
Authors: Howard Douglas L.
Published: November 2024

WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD AND GOTHAM About a year ago, I posted a column about the current state of television and wondered if we were at a crossroads with anti-heroes and the television drama.  I feel inclined to revisit those questions, particularly after a recent episode of The Walking Dead, “Four Walls and a Roof.”
Call for Papers, Film Essays, Short Films: “Crossings: Stories of Migration”. Deadline: Aug 4, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Crossings: Stories of Migration

(June-September 2017) is an ICA-led UK-wide film and events programme supported by the BFI using National Lottery funding, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the School of Film & Television, Falmouth University. We live in an age of migration.
Workshop culture
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We live in a “workshop culture”. On the one hand, it is costly and exclusionary. Few can afford to travel, and the organization finds it more difficult to afford and justify the expense of moving bodies and materials to meet. Its outcomes are difficult to clearly identify, much less measure. They often contribute to communication overhead.
Against insularity
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“We came to understand because we have very good global connections.”

How do we connect with other people, with other member organizations in the network, and with those external to it? How do we form and leverage networks? Where is learning in these networks? Beyond utilitarian purposes, how do connections with our colleagues and their organizations enrich our experience? We cannot afford to remain insular and inward-looking.
Founding Editors
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Kim Akass, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stephen Lacey David Lavery Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Robin Nelson Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College, USA
Onboarding
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How do we get newcomers onboard? Onboarding refers to the mechanism through which new staff acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective “insiders” of the organization.
SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE TELEVISION WORKPLACE
Authors: Bennett James
Published: November 2024

In 2011, the BBC’s social media guidance was simply “don’t do anything stupid”, equally Channel 4 adopt an approach of ‘if you wouldn’t say it on air, don’t post it online’ (Broadcast, 23/02/12). Yet as the recent ‘Queen has died’ (June, 2015) Twitter blunder by BBC journalist Ahment Khawaja reveals, in which the journalist mistook a ‘behind the scenes’ preparation for the inevitable event, those working in broadcast
CFP: ‘Practice and/as Media Industry Research’ – Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Hosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June 2017

Confirmed Keynotes:

Prof Kerstin Stutterheim, Bournemouth University John Mateer, University of York Prof Bambo Soyinka, Bath Spa University The Media Convergence Research Centre at Bath Spa University is proud to be hosting the 2017 Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium.
Online learning 101: learning objectives and mind map
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

My LSi.io presentation on the foundational knowledge about online learning in the humanitarian context could provide fodder for… an online course. And here are some of the learning objectives that would be included in such a course, together with a mind map showing some of the items addressed by the presentation.
CfP: International Journal of James Bond Studies, Issue 2. Deadline: Sept 30, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The

International Journal of James Bond Studies

is an academic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on all aspects of Ian Fleming’s James Bond franchise.
Unified Knowledge Universe
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“Knowledge is the economy. What used to be the means has today become the end. Knowledge is a river, not a reservoir. A process, not a product. It’s the pipes that matter, because learning is in the network.” – George Siemens  in Knowing Knowledge (2006)

Harnessing the proliferation of knowledge systems and the rapid pace of technological change is a key problem for 21st century organizations.
Bring on 2015!
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

A year ago, I announced the creation of Learning Strategies International, a talent network to connect learning leaders who yearn to solve ‘wicked’ knowledge problems. In its first twelve months, LSi has engaged with 700 leaders from 280 organizations to contribute to over 100 projects. In 2015, we will be announcing new services and partnerships emerging from connections initiated, nurtured, and strengthened in 2014.
Patterns and trends
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

How do we navigate these rules while achieving intended purpose? When we need new knowledge, where do we go? How do we go about it? How do we limit our exploration to ensure that we can still deliver on our tasks?