Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions solidified two major victories for the gay rights movement and are being hailed as landmark cases for civil rights. As is widely known by […]
Category: media studies
Q&A with Friday Night Fighter author Troy Rondinone
Gaspar “Indio” Ortega appeared on prime-time network television more than almost any other boxer in history. Rising from poverty in his native Tijuana, Mexico, Ortega used his skills in the ring […]
Friday Night Fighter: a Look Back to the Golden Age of TV Boxing
Troy Rondinone’s new book Friday Night Fighter tells the story of Gaspar “Indio” Ortega, who was a hero for many Latin Americans as one of the first Mexicans to appear […]
Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole
Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in […]
The South Asian invasion of the Oscars
Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of […]
“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues
Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday. As a […]
Swine flu adds academic conference to its list of victims
Late last week we learned that the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, scheduled for May 21-24 in Tokyo, has been cancelled owing to concerns about […]
Watching Obama from the Arabian Peninsula by James Schwoch
I’m sitting in Doha, Qatar, on January 27, 2009, at about 4pm Arabian Standard Time—here this year on a faculty appointment at the new Northwestern University-Qatar campus in Education City. […]