bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Walking with a drone
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We went up the Semnoz this afternoon, taking our two-and-a-half year old baby on a no-pram-allowed walk for the first time. In addition to the usual suspects (cows and goats, mostly), we also ran into Benoit Pereira Da Silva, an application developer at the helm of a contraption he uses to code and walk at the same time. If I understood correctly, he has programmed the drone to document his walks.
Corresponding Editors
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading Michele Byers, Saint Mary’s John Corner, Liverpool University Glen Creeber, Aberystwyth University Lynne Edwards, Ursinus College John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool Dana Heller, Old Dominion University Matt Hills, Aberystwyth
THE PERILS OF SERIES TWO – THE BATTERING OF BROADCHURCH
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

You have to feel sorry for

Broadchurch

creator, Chris Chibnall.
CELEBRATING LGBT CHARACTERS IN SCIENCE FICTION TV
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Towards the end of last year I had the privilege of taking part in a panel on LGBT characters in science fiction television at the BFI Southbank as part of their Days of Fear and Wonder season. Chaired by Emma Smart the panel—myself, Stacey Abbott and Ewan Kirkland—offered some thoughts on the topic and then took questions, largely from the audience.
ECREA Advisory Board
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Alexander Dhoest, Universiteit Antwerpen Irena Reifova, Univerzita Karlova v Praze David Fernandez-Quijada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Rome Jeanette Steemers, University of Westminster Lothar Mikos, Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam Manuel Jose Damasio, Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon
A CRISIS IN BBC DRAMA? OR WHY I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVED REALITY TV BY Elke Weissmann
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Have you been watching Doctor Foster? Or Rellik? Or Strike? No? Me neither. Doctor Foster apparently drew over 8 million viewers to one of its episodes, but judging from my facebook feed, they were not impressed. Rellik scrapes around the 4 million mark, whilst Strike managed around 5 million.
SCMS 2016
Authors: Lealand Geoff
Published: November 2024

Somewhat tentatively , I set off for the gigantic 2016 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Atlanta in early April.
WHAT ACTORS DO: BENEDICT WONG IN MARCO POLO
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

Actors of East Asian descent have traditionally not received much screen time in Anglophone television drama: high-profile roles for such actors in British television drama have been, and continue to be, elusive (Knox forthcoming). Across the Atlantic, as Darrell Hamamoto established in 1994, ‘Asian Americans on network television programs exist primarily for the convenience and benefit of the Euro-American lead players.’ (206). And still today,
CfP: International Conference ‘Gender Differentiation in Media Industries’ @ The Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, June 14-15, 2018. Deadline: Jan 19, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work against gender equality in the media.
CUCUMBER AS ‘POST-GAY’ TELEVISION
Authors: Lovelock Michael
Published: November 2024

Gay-themed drama on British television has become largely synonymous with the name of Russell T Davies. As the creator of the iconic and controversial

Queer as Folk

, first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was perhaps inevitable that Davies’ most recent offering, the eight-part drama series

Cucumber

, also broadcast on Channel 4, would be subject to no shortage of critical attention.
OF BLACK MIRRORS AND ELECTRIC DREAMS: THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE TELEVISION ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

This latest offering to CST has partly been inspired by my recent research and planning for a module on American Contemporary Television Drama, and partly inspired by a long fascination with the television anthology series – its place and status in the television landscape. The module, devised by Anthony N Smith at University of Salford, has been handed into my care whilst he undertakes some serious research of his own – and good luck to him.
SHOULD STREAMING SERVICES BE SUBJECT TO LOCAL QUOTAS?
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Local television outlets are essential places for the development and dissemination of local content. However, if you’re in a market that is anything other than America, the capitalist side of the industry has long fought against this – with commercial broadcasters in particular looking at cheap and reliable imports rather than necessarily investing in local productions. Cue another repeat of The Big Bang Theory.
VIEWERS WITH A JOB TO DO: THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF NETFLIX’S MAKING A MURDERER
Authors: Horeck Tanya
Published: November 2024

Released in its entirety on Netflix on December 18

th

, 2015, the 10-episode long crime documentary,

Making a Murderer

– directed by Columbia University film graduates Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos – quickly became the ‘must see’ global TV hit of Christmas and the New Year.
Connecting to the environment
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“[…] you learn that you are not alone in dealing with a technical problem and sometimes you just need a second technical opinion. Sometimes, it does help if you listen to people who see it from a totally different perspective. To give you an example: [suppliers] are the providers of equipment and we are the demand side.
CfP: Feminist Media Studies, Commentary and Criticism section: “Feminism, Media and the 1990s”. Deadline: Nov 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The editors of Feminist Media Studies’ Commentary and Criticism section invite essay contributions on any topic related to feminism, media and the 1990s. We are particularly interested in submissions from beyond North America and the UK. The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies aims to publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership.
CFP: Bridging Gaps: Where is the Critic in Television Journalism?
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5th International Conference CUNY School of Journalism New York City, USA August 31-September 1, 2017 Conference Keynote Speaker: Andrew Mendelson Associate Dean & Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Conference Key Media Speaker: Tim Harper Journalist &
BBC CHARTER REVIEW: HOW BAD WILL IT GET?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The BBC is under threat like never before. That seems to be the consensus about the two events of past weeks: a budget raid by the Chancellor that saddled the BBC with absorbing the £630 million cost of free TV licences for the over-75s, a seemingly hostile charter review process, kicked off with a Green Paper and the appointment of an advisory group by the new culture minister John Whittingdale.
Broadcasting War – An interdisciplinary 1-day workshop – University of Warwick – Saturday 6th May 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Booking now open (£10/£5 students): http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/bw This workshop will bring together scholars interested in how war has been broadcast to the public in the 20th and 21st centuries. From the early use of radio, through to newsreel, television, 24-hour news, and now social media, the ways in which war has been broadcast has constantly evolved.
A Parting of the Ways?
Authors: Lealand Geoff
Published: November 2024

There is a quote I have used in my first year Media Cultures course, when I address the opening topic ‘Why study the media?’ I cannot recall where I first read it but I have always attributed it to French cultural theorist Roland Barthes. But now I am troubled that I cannot find a source for his words of advice, To be a critic one also needs to be a fan. Perhaps he never wrote such words. Maybe someone else did.
Call for Chapters: Locating Imagination. Popular Culture, Tourism & Belonging. Deadline: Nov 20, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

In the wake of a successful multidisciplinary and international conference on the intersections between popular culture and notions of place held at Erasmus University Rotterdam (5-7th of April 2017) and initial interest from a reputable academic publisher, contributions are being welcomed for an edited volume entitled:

Locating Imagination. Popular Culture, Tourism &
WHAT WE LEARNT FROM SAM AND TRACEY: DOES THE NEW TWIN PEAKS DIFFER TO CONTEMPORARY ‘QUALITY TV’?
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

N.B. This article contains SPOILERS relating to the FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE NEW SERIES OF TWIN PEAKS. Do not read this if you haven’t seen these and want to remain unspoilt.
TV SPORTS FROM BARRANQUILLA (GOOD) TO BENAUD (NOT GOOD)
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I work in four countries and for the same number of colleges. Much of my time involves garnering frequent-polluter miles, by bus, air, rail, auto, and air-conditioning. As I write, I’m finishing an assignment at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, where a program in Comunicación Social y Periodismo (Social Communication and Journalism) has been located for the last two decades.
CFP: 1968 in the Media, 20 March 2017, Paris
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in Paris, on March 20th, 2017. The one-day seminar is dedicated to the media coverage of different political and social events that took place in 1968 across the globe.
CfP: UdS American Studies Graduate Forum „Reading American TV Series: An Interdisciplinary Conference“, October 5-6, 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Deadline: June 15, 2017

In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 2-day American Studies Graduate Forum that invites doctoral and advanced Master students to present their current projects-in-progress in a workshop-style setting.
IN MEMORY OF STUDIO DRAMA: CURATING AND PRESENTING THE BFI SOUTHBANK ‘DRAMATIC SPACES’ SEASON
Authors: Panos Leah
Published: November 2024

In our ‘post-television’ age when the appearance of television drama and film, both shot on digital camera, is increasingly homogenous, ‘old’ multi-camera studio drama must seem like more of an oddity than ever before.
Decentralization done wrong
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Leave the global functions to headquarters, and shift responsibility for the field to those who are actually there (or close by). It sounds perfectly sensible. And, in fact, it is an approach to decentralization adopted by some organizations. What are its implications for learning strategy?
RE-VISITING ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: RUDE, CRUDE AND TOTALLY SPOT ON
Authors: Marghitu Stefania
Published: November 2024

I’ll always remember my initial reaction the first time I watched

Absolutely Fabulous

(BBC, 1992-2012). Edina Monsoon (played by co-creator Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (played by former model and co-star Joanna Lumley) appeared to be the rudest, crudest and strangest women I ever saw on television.
Beyond MOOCs: the democratization of digital learning
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

It is with some trepidation that I announce the Geneva Learning Foundation’s first open access digital course in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Education and Learning Strategies International.
WHEN TWO BECOMES ONE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

As this goes to press (can we say that about online materials?), series four of

Line of Duty

is about to commence transmission in its new Sunday evening slot. I must admit I was slow coming to this particular party; when I saw the first series being advertised in a

Radio Times

feature back in 2012 my response was along the lines of ‘Crivens!
BROADCASTING TO RESCUE THE INTERNET FOR PUBLIC SERVICE? THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPACE AS THE FUTURE FOR THE LICENCE FEE
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Tony Ageh, the BBC’s one original thinker, spoke at Royal Holloway earlier this week. Those expecting a standard defence of the ‘BBC licence fee’ were in for a shock. He proposed a complete rethinking of the concept for the digital age. “We used to be broadcast beings. We are now internet beings. We should ask what the Licence Fee buys us when we, as citizens, are under attack from all sides.
A DEAD RECKONING FOR FOX NEWS
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

Television and I grew up together. — Roger Ailes, 1995 (13) Among the sheer glut of head-spinning headline-grabbing news stories emanating from the American political culture this spring, one arrived with far less fanfare than it deserved: former Fox News chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, died on 18 May 2017.
WHY CAN’T I FIND ANYTHING TO WATCH ON TV?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Why has the television business made it so hard for its users to find something they want to watch? It used to be so easy. You turned on the TV and instantly there was something, if you didn’t like that you could hop from one channel to another… or use the handy scheduling grid to find what was on when. There is no equivalent for the digital age.
Televizual: Data Visualization in Industry and Academia
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

According to the most recent iPlayer monthly performance pack (April-June 2016) – a periodical report by the BBC that examines iPlayer usage – the online service fulfilled 290 million programme requests in June 2016 alone.
STORIES TO AFFECT ONE ANOTHER: FACEBOOK TELEVISION
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

This is an intimate account of the ways in which the moving image enters and energises the stories that we tell one another on Facebook. It is not meant to be a taxonomy of the different audio-visual forms that are shared, liked and commented upon.
WHERE TELEVISION SETS ARE MADE; OR, THE STRUGGLE TO CHAIR THE BBC TRUST
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

My front-runner status to be the next Chair of the BBC Trust has been jeopardized, thanks to someone named Sebastian Coe (Lord Coe to his friends). Casting around for an explanation of this otherwise incomprehensible news, I have rejected obvious reasons, such as his being a former Tory Member of Parliament and a world-famous athlete who presided over the 2012 Olympics.
I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER
Authors: McLean James
Published: November 2024

It is quite a joy to discover one of your personal fetishes on the internet. Indeed, I was beginning to feel that I was the only one with a dark, long-term fascination in sitcom studio floorplans, but in recent years there have been one or two articles that have started referencing similar fascinations.
THE RED, WHITE, AND BLACK OF “FREEDOM SUMMER” (2014)
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

[The killing of one black and two white civil rights workers] was an example of what we had really been talking to the volunteers about before the three went missing—that you are going into a murderously violent state and you have to understand that the danger affects you every day, all day long.
THE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS
Authors: Duthie Lyndsay
Published: November 2024

The big question of this year’s BAFTAs was how many awards Netflix would romp home with.
Online learning 101: Costs vs. efficacy
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Having presented three online learning approaches, here are three aspects to consider together: What is the cost of developing an online course based on each approach? What is the cost of delivering the course, per learner or per hour? What is the learning efficacy (outcome) that can be expected?
REGARDING RUMPOLE: PRESENTING THE CASE FOR ‘OLD’ TV
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

In the most recent episode of Matt Berry’s sitcom Toast of London, the titular thespian demonstrated a lamentable (though characteristic) disengagement from his profession by several times announcing: ‘I never watch the television. Though I have heard that Breaking Bad is very good.’ Ah, Breaking Bad; I’ve only seen the episodes I’ve had to teach, so maybe I’m the one who’s disengaged. To be honest, I’d much rather watch a bit of ‘old’ TV.
WHEN SUPERNATURAL GOES TO HELL
Authors: Brown Simon
Published: November 2024

The UK broadcast of Supernatural has gone all to hell.
IRISH TELEVISION VIEWING IN A NOT SO GLOBAL TELEVISION ECONOMY
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

When I moved from the UK to Ireland in 2015/16 my transition in terms of the availability of television was relatively easy. Given that many of the same channels, subscription packages and streaming services span both the UK and Ireland, it felt more that my television viewing was enhanced by the re-introduction of Irish terrestrial broadcast channels such as RTE 1 &
Life-work balance
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Our connections include not only social life with colleagues, but also our personal lives with our partners, families and friends. Parental responsibilities, traffic jams in long commutes, or other challenges we face in our personal lives impact our level of energy and motivation for learning and innovation. We call for leadership that recognizes the need for better balance between work and family.
I have no idea
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

What do we do when we cannot achieve certainty? We increasingly accept that we need to make decisions without the comfort of certainty. It is okay to not know. It is healthy to accept the unknown as we no longer seek certainty. It is when we are no longer certain that we learn. In some cases, uncertainty opens the door to knowledge that we were not seeking. This is incidental learning. The organization still expects certainty.
CATFISHING FOR LOVE
Authors: Baluch Jamila
Published: November 2024

(Cat)Fishing for Love Catfish: The TV Show (MTV, 2012-) is a reality programme based on the documentary film Catfish (2010) which followed a young man building a romantic relationship with a woman he had met on Facebook, but never seen in real life.
TEACHING GENRE USING NETFLIX
Authors: O’Meara Jennifer
Published: November 2024

Although Netflix’s approach to genre is different to those predominant in screen studies, the streaming site provides useful contextual materials for teaching on the subject. At several points last semester Netflix proved relevant to discussions of genre as part of an introductory Film Studies module, as well as an Honours ‘Film Genres’ module.
WORKING OTHERS TO DEATH: DISCOURSES OF ATTACHMENT, AND OVERWORK IN THE ECONOMY OF ACADEMIC LABOUR (PART 2) By Karen Boyle
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Cathy Johnson’s “Working ourselves to death” will go down in

CST

-history as the blog which nearly brought the system down, so heartily did it resonate with so many of us! In this piece, I want to continue the conversation about overwork and attachment and ask some, potentially uncomfortable, questions about the ways in which self-exploitation becomes discursive justification for exploiting others.
CFP: Trans TV – 13-15 September 2017, University of Westminster
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Transformations of Television Industries Transformations of Television Consumption Practices Transformations of Televisual Aesthetics, Narratives and Identities 21

st

Century Transnational and Transmedia Television Practices Wednesday the 13

th

of September to Friday the 15

th

of September, 2017, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London.
THEORY, PRACTICE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING YOUR HANDS ON
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The theory/practice ‘divide’ has long bedeviled media studies. But this divide cannot be sustained in the face of new concerns in the field. Studies of gaming and computing emphasize issues that studies of audiovisual media have been able to suppress: questions of the body, of the haptic, of physical engagement, of technologies and their complicated relationship with the humans who use them… or are used by them.
12 questions that learning strategy seeks to answer
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Learning is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies (behaviors) through experience and study. We all want to learn, so why is it so difficult to stop work to make time for learning, despite our best intentions? In exploring possible solutions to this question, learning strategy emerges from the existing practices and strengths of the organization – together with a diagnosis of where it needs to improve knowledge performance.
SAVED BY THE SCHEDULE
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Unlike an increasing number of colleagues, my television viewing is still largely tied to the broadcast schedule. This is entirely due to my being a creature of habit; while I am willing and able to adapt to the new, it’s usually a matter of necessity rather than inclination.
SELF-EXOTICISM, TELEVISION, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

This paper aims to explore, and expand upon, a theme I recently raised at The Media Across Borders conference, Roehampton University (June, 2015), in relation to global television formats and the transnational. In particular, it aims to consider the concept (and in some respects, the term) of ‘Self-Exoticism’, its relationship to transnationalism, but more significantly, how it is represented and constructed in contemporary television.
TURKISH NOVELAS IN CHILE; DATELINE SWEDEN
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

Now that I’m moving between part-time academic posts in three countries, I’m lucky, needy, or nerdy enough, to look for, accept, or leap at short-term opportunities. This week I’m a visitor at the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden in Nörrkoping. Last week I did the same thing at Chile’s Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
FAREWELL CLASS OF ’58, WELCOME LEICESTER CITY; BUT REALLY, A SHOUT-OUT TO OLODUM
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

The death of Prince and the triumph of Leicester City in the English Premier League. One inevitable, the other not so. Each, untimely. No-one really knows as yet why either event occurred. One should become clear in the near future, while the other may remain eternally mysterious.
ARE WE DISAFFECTED WITH POLITICS OR OBSESSED WITH POLITICS? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK ON TV
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Two things have made me think about the role of television in the current wave of disaffection from politics.
MARILYN MONROE’S TELEVISION SET
Authors: Lealand Geoff
Published: November 2024

The end of my university career approaches as a result of my (reluctant) acceptance of voluntary redundancy. I will finish in November 2017 after 25 years of teaching media at the University of Waikato. There is a bigger picture; by leaving in November, my colleagues will not have to go through a demeaning process of re-applying for their jobs. But they will also be hard pressed to cover all our courses and satisfy student demands.
ITV 60 VIEWING NOTES
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

Network’s 12-disc collection

ITV 60: Celebrating Sixty Years of ITV

is a curious exercise. A compilation of 60 ITV programmes to mark the channel’s sixtieth anniversary, its selections derive from three separate sources.
Special issue on Television Formats in IJDT
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The International Journal of Digital Television has published a special issue on

Television Formats

. A variety of topics from the field of Television Format research are covered in the contributions by Jean K. Chalaby and Andrea Esser, Joe F. Khalil, Martin N. Ndlela, Michael Keane and Joy Danjing Zhang, Wenna Zeng and Colin Sparks, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Ethel Pis Diez, Paul Torre, and Tom Evens and Andrei Richter.
#DigitalScholar Apprenticeship
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

(Please do share this announcement with promising learning leaders in your network. Your support is much appreciated. – Reda)

The Geneva Learning Foundation, together with LSi and the University of Illinois College of Education, have joined to develop new learning approaches to build capacity, produce locally-situated knowledge, and foster deep learning outcomes.
Call for chapters: “Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear”. Deadline: Sept 30, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Title: Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror &
CAN iPLAYER SAVE THE BBC LICENCE FEE?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Here’s the problem. The licence fee is a cheap and elegant way of funding public service TV. It’s far cheaper than a Sky subscription and yields far more original UK production. However, a lot of people wriggle out of paying it, so prosecutions of licence fee defaulters clutter up the courts.
DO YOU SECRETLY LOVE BRADLEY WALSH? DON’T WORRY. YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY BY ELKE WEISSMANN
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We were working with our first year students on pitches for programme ideas, when I noticed something very strange: my 18-19-year-old first year students knew who Bradley Walsh was. And more surprisingly (and perhaps shockingly) still: they loved him. Don’t get me wrong, I too love Bradley Walsh.
FAMILIAR ALIENS: TELETUBBIES RETURNS
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

The British pre-school children’s television programme Teletubbies was made by Ragdoll Productions for BBC and first screened from 1997-2001. To my delight it was announced at the end of September that the series will return later this year, now produced by DHX Media.
Call for Chapters: Science Fiction Beyond the Western Tradition (working title)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Call for chapters: Proposals submission deadline: 1st September 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30th September 2017 Full chapters due: 15th January 2018 Planned submission of manuscript: 1st March 2018 Overview: “Science fiction is the major non-realistic mode of imaginative creation of our epoch. Why? Because science and technology are continually changing the conditions of our existence.
Choose your own adventure
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is my presentation at the Online Learning Summit in London on 16 June 2015. I asked participants to choose between a set of four questions: Question #1: Why are learning, education and training so impervious to change? Number two is the Extinction Event question: It’s 2025. Your organization ceased to exist in 2020.  What happened? What was your role, i.e. the role of the learning leader in what happened?
Learning technologists are obsolete
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

These are some notes on one of several blog posts that are churning in my head about what digital transformation means for learning and leadership.
QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN TELEVISION: ANALYSING AND VISUALISING 80,000 FRAMES IN 20 SECONDS
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

Several weeks ago I came across an interesting piece in

The Guardian

featuring the work of Jason Shulman, a photographer who condenses entire films into a single image by shooting them in one ultra-long exposure. By using this technique Shulman produces haunting images of these films that could quite easily be mistaken for some of the later, more abstract paintings of William Turner.
Call for Essays: Apocalyptic Television (Edited Collection)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Science fiction has always indicated that it is a matter of when—not if—some kind of Apocalypse will occur. When it does, what will happen to the organisms that inhabit Planet Earth? Will humans revert to some type of proto-human? Will they “rise” to the occasion and create something better? Will the strong survive, only to subjugate the weak?
CfP: Serialised Storytelling – 2nd international conference “(Cross-)cultures, memories and values”, 30-31 Oct 2017, Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Serialised Storytelling

organises the second international conference “Cultures, memories, values” hosted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Conference date: 30th and 31st of October 2017.

Storytelling in a serialised form has become a popular vehicle to convey certain values, key events and many specific traits of a given culture.
Learning in emergency operations: a pilot course to learn how we learn
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the fourth 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. A new blog post will be published each morning this week (subscribe here).

“Continuous learning at the individual level is necessary but not sufficient to influence perceived changes in […] performance.
PRIVATE TELEVISION IN GREECE AND THE GREEK AUDIENCE: 26 YEARS OF AN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

It was in the November of 1989 when the first private television station in Greece transmitted its first signal and new frequencies invaded the audiovisual landscape which had been dominated by the state monopoly. This invasion was a turning point in the history of Greek television, as it was the stone that moved the stagnant waters of the strict and petrified television landscape, fostered by the state-bred system.
NOT SO BRAVE? HUXLEY AND WHO
Authors: Harmes Marcus
Published: November 2024

Since 2015 various news outlets have been reporting plans for Steven Spielberg to create a new television adaptation of the 1932 novel

Brave New World

and since 2013 a film adaptation by Ridley Scott has been in the pipeline. The book by Aldous Huxley was last adapted for TV in 1980 and filmed in 1998.
Soufrière
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“What I like,” whispered my dinner companion, “is that these publishing types have survived the fire of digital transformation, emerging out of the boiling pits of disruption, and all of that. Some were dismembered before, during, and after – acquired and merged, sold and resold. All paid a terrible price, but bear their bruises and scars proudly.
IT’S NOT ALL CONTENT: TELEVISION AS TELEVISION IN INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

I pick up on what might be considered a quite dated quote spoken by Kevin Spacey at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2014. Referencing the ways in which platform delivery detached film and television from their traditional viewing contexts, Spacey claimed that, “It’s all content.
Skunk Works: 14 rules to live and die by
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Lockheed’s Skunk Works may be one of the earliest models for sustaining innovation inside an organization – never mind the nefarious mission of making flying machines to kill people. These are the basic operations rules enunciated by founder Kelly Johnson in 1954, as cited in his successor Ben Rich’s book: The Skunk Works program manager must be delegated practically complete control of his program in all aspects.
ADAPT Live @ the Being Human Festival, Nov 23-24, 2017 at National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Pioneering ex-BBC television crews responsible for bringing colour into our homes in the late 1960s will bring TV history to life in the foyer of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford later this month (November 23-24). ADAPT LIVE, part of the Being Human festival, will reunite veteran TV crews to demonstrate the skills that brought us some of Britain’s earliest colour TV shows.
Blame it on Plato
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Even as computer-mediated communication is now embedded into nearly every aspect of life, the sentiment persists that written and therefore distance communication is intrinsically inferior. Here is the very interesting introduction from Andrew Feenberg’s classic article – written in the late 1980s – calling into question the presumption of superiority in the face-to-face encounter:

In our culture the face-to-face encounter is
Webcasts, then and now
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

(No, this is not a post about the Apple keynote meltdown.) When I started organizing live webcast events for the first time in 2006, they required extensive technical preparation, specialized software and hardware, and – most important – a group of really smart people gifted with more than a little bit of luck to pull off each event.
ONE YEAR INTO JIMMY FALLON’S TONIGHT SHOW
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Originally kicked off by Steve Allen half a century ago,

The Tonight Show

remains iconic television. NBC’s show and format was made most famous by Johnny Carson during his run in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and subsequently infamous by Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. Leno who was taken on board, dropped, taken back, and dropped again over his 22 years as a host, while O’Brien lasted less than a year.
THE SPECTRES OF CRIME: HAUNTING ICONOGRAPHIES ON/OF THE SCREEN
Authors: Palatinus David Levente
Published: November 2024

The recent proliferation and, I might add, pervasiveness, of crime dramas like

Sherlock

(BBC One 2010-),

Elementary

(CBS, 2012-),

Hannibal

(NBC, 2013-),

Whitechapel

(ITV, 2009-2013),

Ripper Street

(BBC One, 2012-), and

Copper

(BBC America, 2012-2013), just to mention a few, all indicate an interesting albeit not unprecedented
CfP: “National Cultures of Television Comedy Symposium”, Notre Dame London Global Gateway, 16-17 November 2017 (deadline: Aug 01, 2017)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

English-language television comedy is circulating transnationally more than ever before, as Americans watch the Irish comedy

Moone Boy

on Hulu and British comedy panel shows like

Have I Got News For You

on YouTube; Netflix brings the BBC’s

Miranda

and RTE imports CBS’s

2 Broke Girls

to Irish shores; the most popular sitcom on British television,

Mrs. Brown’s Boys

, is created by an Irish performer;
PENNY THOUGHTS, DREADFUL DESIRES: QUEER MONSTROSITY IN SHOWTIME’S PENNY DREADFUL
Authors: Phillips Jordan
Published: November 2024

It has been said that we live in a time of monsters. Within the horror genre, these monsters can take the form of literal monsters you might find in ancient mythologies or Gothic literature, or they can take the form of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) or queer peoples. Within recent decades, both the monstrous body and sources of queerness have become increasingly de rigueur in popular screen media.
CHILDISH MEMORIES
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I’ve been thinking about childish memories. Just as I now turn to obituaries before sports in my morning paper, I frequently think in childish terms. ‘Childish memories’ signifies something pejorative, as opposed to ‘childhood memories,’ right? It means being bellicose, prone to tantrums—selfish and controlling. But it is of course also and equally about childhood. So what do I remember about television, and why might it interest you?
YOU CAN’T BUILD AN ENTIRE SHOW AROUND NOSTALGIA: WHY DO I ENJOY GIRL MEETS WORLD?
Authors: Thompson Lauren Jade
Published: November 2024

Lorna Jowett’s recent blog for CST on ‘Children, Television, Nostalgia and Audiences’ helped me think through some questions I’d had around my own enjoyment of a contemporary children’s show:

Girl Meets World

(2014 -).

Girl Meets World

has caught my attention for numerous reasons, but mostly because, as a child-free viewer in her late twenties, it places me in an odd position;
Games for health: 14 trick questions for Ben Sawyer
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Ben Sawyer is the co-founder of both the Serious Games Initiative (2002) and the Games for Health Project (2004). He is one of the leading experts on the use of game technologies, talent, and design techniques for purposes beyond entertainment. He answered 14 questions by e-mail ahead of his presentation to the IFRC Global Health Team.
CFP: Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture: “Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV”, Deadline: July 31, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal

Mai

is seeking contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’.

/Mai/

is a new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai Zetterling.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY (FLEXIBLE) TALENT?
Authors: Kelly Lisa W.
Published: November 2024

In 2006, Richard Sennett published a short article in

The Political Quarterly

entitled ‘What do we mean by talent?’ Having carried out ethnographic research with workers in the so-called ‘New Economy’, or rather those in the financial sector, new technology and what he terms ‘media services’ (163), Sennett sought to examine the notion of talent in relation to meritocracy.
Relishing change
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Jack Welch in General Electric’s Annual Report, nearly two decades ago: Source: Welch, J., 2000. General Electric Annual Report 2000 (Annual Report). General Electric, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
MY CAB RIDE WITH BERNIE SANDERS
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

A decade ago, Bernie Sanders and I arrived on the same plane from New York to a public event in the mid-west. We were allocated shared transport from the airport, so I spent maybe forty minutes with him. The event we were headed to was about media reform. Other speakers included Jesse Jackson, Amy Goodman, Billy Bragg (whom noone had heard of), and Phil Donahue. My friend Bob McChesney was our presiding guru.
HOW TO WATCH TV – OR NOT
Authors: Holland Pat
Published: November 2024

No, I’m not planning to write about

Goggle Box

-although I’m constantly struck by the contrast between the high-pitched engagement of the sofa-sitters (after all it did win the 2014  BAFTA award for ‘constructed factual’ programmes) and the research conducted by Peter Collet for the IBA back in the 1980s.
Why supposedly boring conference calls are actually amazing
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Where phone and Skype remain the gold standard for one-to-one communication (and learning), many of us find value in conference calls, irrespective of the technology (phone, Skype, Webex, Hangouts…) used. Conference calls may seem as unimpressive or mundane as that

other

piece of paradigm-changing learning technology, the whiteboard – but that’s the point.
RINGS AROUND LONDON: TELEVISION IN 1946
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

British television re-started after the Second World War on 7 June 1946, with programmes that included adaptations of theatre dramas, and relays of public ceremonies and sporting events. It relied heavily of remediation, Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin’s (1999) concept of remaking or repurposing meanings from one text into another but also the extension of a text across multiple mediums and platforms.
AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION OF CANONICITY
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works of a particular author or artist that are recognized as genuine: ‘the Shakespeare canon’ (Oxford Dictionaries. Online) Apologies, but I’ve marked an awful lot of student essays recently (and I do mean awful). This stylish trend for opening one’s work with an easily Googled dictionary definition is infectious. In the worst possible sense. See?
ADAPTing TO SOCIAL MEDIA TELEVISION
Authors: Strange Dr Niki
Published: November 2024

Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research project have focused on ‘Social Media in the Television Workplace’ and social media’s impact on the production of live TV. This post shifts our focus from

The Voice,

as a ‘shiny floor show’ with social production by a discrete digital unit, to draw on our subsequent ethnographic observations of Channel 4’s

Sunday Brunch

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SHOULD FILM STUDIES BE A SUB-DISCIPLINE OF TELEVISION STUDIES?
Authors: Mills Brett
Published: November 2024

How come Television Studies rarely discusses the roles film plays in broadcasting?
Publishing as learning
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We are both consumers and producers of publications, whether in print or online. Publications are static containers for knowledge from the pre-Internet era. Even if they are now mostly digital, the ways in which we think about them remains tied to the past. Nevertheless, at their best, they provide a useful reference point, baseline, or benchmark to establish a high-quality standard that is easy, cheap and effective to disseminate.
Why learning is key to the strategic shift in how the world manages health crises
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is the second 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.
FOX’S SCREAM QUEENS AND THE POLITICS OF PASTICHE
Authors: Phillips Jordan
Published: November 2024

FOX’s horror-comedy series Scream Queens is the latest addition to the canon of Ryan Murphy and Co.’s anthology television series, alongside FX’s American Horror Story (2011-present), and the upcoming American Crime Story (2016). Scream Queens, named after the sobriquet for a female horror icon, is a hyper-stylised, retro-pastiche of horror and slasher cinema from the 1970s and 1980s.
Seven months
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Alan Todd, Founder and CEO, Corp U: Today’s workplace culture is evolving at a break-neck pace as technological advances, shifting demographics, and new economic realities force corporations to reorganize, on average, every seven months. The challenge is real. Fortunately, so are the solutions.
CfP: Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences: ‘The representation of death in modern society’. Deadline: Nov 30, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences

Directors: Stefano Bory, Gianfranco Pecchinenda (University Federico II, Naples, Italy) http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/funes/announcement/view/81 The experience of death represents one of those few things every society must face, no matter what historical period.
PLAN OF ACTION? RESPONDING TO TONY HALL
Authors: McElroy Ruth
Published: November 2024

One of the rewards of teaching first-year undergraduates is that you are constantly forced to challenge your own perceptions about the changing nature of contemporary media and society. This year, I noticed a step change in the degree to which a sizeable minority of students seem disconnected from the idea of public service broadcasting in general, and from the BBC in particular.
A ‘PSYCHIATRIST’ FOR SOME GREEK TV STATIONS: THE ‘WATERLOO’ OF THE PRESTIGIOUS TELEVISED INFORMATION PROCESS
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the particularly heinous crime that was hidden behind the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from Bulgaria, who lived with her mother in Athens, Greece. The Hellenic Police Authority informed the public about the arrest of two Bulgarian citizens living in Greece in connection with the murder of their 4-year-old daughter Anny.
Tech Change
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

The Institute for Technology and Social Change is a private company based in Washington, D.C. Its web site offers a course catalogue focused on technological innovation. Timo Luege is a communication specialist who has spent the last seven years working for the humanitarian and development sector, a period during which large-scale disasters intersected with the rapid rise in mobile communication.
REACTING TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE COMEBACK AND WEB THERAPY
Authors: O’Meara Jennifer
Published: November 2024

For many, Lisa Kudrow will forever be associated with Friends (NBC, 1994-2004), the epitome of conservative network television. And yet, with both The Comeback (HBO, 2005; 2014) and Web Therapy (L Studio;
CREATIVE ENERGIES, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES – FINDING TELEVISION STUDIES AT NECS
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

Somehow, I always find myself approaching big, multi-media conferences with a faint edge of paranoia. How will television studies fare in the context of a set-up which was originally organised around Cinema Studies and in which different kinds of work is often subject to a severe (though sometimes unspoken) hierarchy of value and importance? I guess everyone feels some version of this.
CLAXONS OF SOCIALISM
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I’ve just returned from Málaga and the European Communication and Research Association’s Television Studies section’s annual conference. A mouthful to type, if you get my drift.
CFP: NEPCA Fall Conference / Television 27-28 October, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking papers on the subject of television for its annual fall conference to be held on the campus of University of Massachusetts Amherst on October 27-28, 2017. The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2017. NEPCA prides itself on holding conferences which emphasize discussing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment.
Anchoring
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“Hitting a stationary target requires different skills of a marksman than hitting a target in motion.”

– George Siemens (2006:93) We are all knowledge workers who struggle with knowledge abundance –

too much information

. Percent of knowledge stored in your brain needed to do your job   Our ability to learn is heavily dependent on our ability to connect with others.
CfP: Breaking out of the Box: Critical Essays on the Cult TV Show Supernatural
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

“What’s in the box?” Dean Winchester asks in “The Magnificent Seven,” episode one of the third season of

Supernatural

, to the befuddlement of his brother Sam and their avuncular mentor Bobby Singer, but to the delight of fans who revel in the show’s wry meta elements. Dean is of course quoting Detective Mills, Brad Pitt’s character in the thriller

Se7en

(1995), directed by David Fincher.
GLORY, AMEN! REVIVING THE X-FILES AND RETURNING-TO-FANDOM NARRATIVES
Authors: Jones Bethan
Published: November 2024

I feel I should start this blog with an admission: I am a lifelong

X-Files

fan. I first watched it at the age of 12, and over 20 years later I’m as obsessed with Mulder and Scully as I was then. The news last year that the series was coming back for a 6 episode event season was met with a combination of excitement and consternation by fans (me included). Would Season 10 pick up where

I Want to Believe

(2008) left off?
BAD MEDICINE ON WHY MEDICAL TV DOES (NOT) MATTER
Authors: Palatinus David Levente
Published: November 2024

Some three months ago I got involved in a conversation with colleagues at the University of Bologna about medical humanities grants and, in relation to those, about the possible contribution of media studies, and television in particular (if allowed, not to mention, approved of), to the research on the cultural iconography of medicine.