Report from the Fiske Matters Conference
Part 1: “This conference is an intervention” With those words, Pam Wilson captured the urgency of the Fiske Matters conference: Over two days in Madison, Wisc., some sixty speakers and attendees...
View ArticleCompulsory Ultrasound Audiences and Feminism
Earlier this week, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell withdrew support for a bill that would require women seeking abortions to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. McDonnell backed down due to public...
View ArticleUpfronts 2012: “Save our Show (On the Industry’s Margins)”
[This is the first of two pieces on this year’s Upfronts from Antenna – on Friday, Jonathan Gray will consider the newly ordered shows from the five networks, while today I focus on the renewals and...
View ArticleResearching from within kids’ culture
A princess (by three-year-old student* with crown drawing help from me). After my first day in the daycare classroom, I thought I had the kids pegged. Just in the span of an hour, one three-year-old...
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