Jul 3, 2018 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Other, Virtual Reality, Volume 30
Abstract: At the turn of 20th century the whole of America was talking about Coney Island—New York’s famous entertainment district was booming, and sported attractions like none other. Coney Island’s most famous amusement park was Steeplechase Park, there you could...
Oct 8, 2015 | Browse by Media, Browse Past Volumes, Digital Media/Internet, Music, Other, Print Media, Volume 26
Abstract: Fostering male tradition in popular music, rock’n’roll history often underrated the early Girl Group chart-topping era of 1958-63 after Elvis and before Beatlemania. By the 1990s-2000s, Riot Grrrl and Girl Power success was again devalued by that homosocial...
Jun 26, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Other, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
On May 16, 2011, the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response for the United States Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Ali S. Khan, did something unusual. He did something that irrevocably changed the ways in which public health agencies around...
Jun 22, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Games, Other, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23
The Ring Franchise The circuits of transnational production sparked by Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)[1] — which remains Japan’s most commercially successful domestic horror film ever released — are polyvalent and anfractuous, constituted of almost unprecedented levels of...
Jun 22, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Other, Print Media, Television, Volume 23
Introduction The Jodi Arias Trial has been described as one of the most peculiar and salacious murder trials in American history.[1] In May 2013, Arias, a 32 year-old woman, was found guilty of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander in Mesa, Arizona on June 4th...
Feb 5, 2014 | Animation, Comics, fan culture, Other, Uncategorized, Volume 22
Abstract: The socio/cultural history and partnership of toy advertisement and children’s television is rich and well documented (Schneider 1989, Kunkel 1988, Seiter 1993). In this article I discuss the influence of policy in girl’s cartoon programming as...