VITAMEDIAS
Television is good for you: TV makes you lazy. TV makes you violent. TV makes you fat. Don't believe everything you read - Time to accept television: Can you imagine the world without television?
[T]elevision remains the most ubiquitous, educating, egalitarian, affecting and powerful medium the world has ever known. [...] So the real test is this: Can you turn it off?
TV gets its PhD: Who knew that it was also about "self-reflexivity"? Or that it was a metonymy of global capital and a great case study in ignominy, or the "audiovisualization of shame," which "challenges long-held assumptions about the boundaries of genre and representation"? And just why do viewers tune in each week? Turns out it's the "mathematical processes of prediction and the narrative processes of textual pleasure" that compels the audience.
Academia has tuned in to television, and it's TV's most of-the-moment shows that are garnering much of the interest, part of a broader, not universally lauded trend in cultural studies that is pushing pop culture front and center.
Television? It's academic, really: I am a camera: When the University of Pittsburgh's Hugh Curnutt discussed "self-reflexivity" in a his paper presented at the MIT conference, he was referring to the confessional moments in reality shows such as "The Bachelorette," where the contestants talk directly to the camera, and the viewers.
[act.: For Lonely Travelers, TV Is a Faithful Companion: There is a dirty little secret harbored by many business travelers, and it has nothing to do with abusing their expense accounts or with romantic interludes on the road.
It is about how much television they watch while holed up alone in their hotel room: apparently, way too much. Some even say they feel powerless to turn it off.]