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Getting Desperate: Twitter on primetime

Last night’s episode of Desperate Housewives showed how far things have come: it included a scene that hinged on Tom’s lack of knowledge about Twitter, and hence his failure at a job interview. This shameful experience led to an extended subplot about whether or not Tom should get plastic surgery to disguise his age and [...]

Affective voice

e-waste

Nadia says:
“Just found this room at my work with a sign saying ‘Not Working’. Could only capture one corner.”

e-waste

Kristian says: “What struck me was the still existing use value of the objects. Surely if they were Very Useful two years ago they are still Very Useful today (an old car is still useful, an old wheelbarrow is useful etc etc), but these electronic things have lost some critical value that eludes me (beyond [...]

e-waste

Kate says: “This is the stuff that’s never even come out of the box since I bought my laptop, and this is what the laptop replaced; it hasn’t been turned on since. What does one need with 5 different AC adaptors?”

Ordinary Australians? Reading Underbelly

This is a slightly edited version of the Underbelly paper I gave in Melbourne last week. Comments are especially welcome before we submit it for publication.
Ordinary Australians? Aspiration, commodity fetishism and masculinity in Underbelly

by Melissa Gregg and Jason Wilson
Introduction
During the April 23rd screening of the Nine network drama Underbelly, Brisbane viewers sitting through the [...]

Learning from Underbelly

In a couple of weeks the Television and the National conference is on at ACMI in Melbourne. I’m giving two papers. The first is the Work on TV paper I’ve mentioned here previously, and which I’ll post about separately as I add some more touches. I now have to mention Tina Fey’s Palin persona as [...]

Twitter whores and Facebook flakes

I wish I’d seen this before my “Always On” talk. Would have helped in question time.

Part Two is also pretty funny. I got this from a comment on Mark Deuze’s Facebook page – it was offered by one of his friends as an initiation present.
Mark’s blogpost this week makes me realise I’m not [...]

Work on TV

This time next week I’ll be in Melbourne speaking at Monash University’s Film and Television series, Under Construction. Loyal Home Cooked Theory reader and brilliant film scholar Adrian Martin has generously invited me to share some of the thinking behind one of my current projects, “Work on TV.”
This will be an early version of [...]

A screen without a mouse: On TV bashing

**This post is also a response to the Passion Quilt Meme. I tag Supervalent Thought, Purse Lip Square Jaw, Unemployed at Last!, and tactical.**
Some people will have seen that one of UQ’s most respected television scholars made the editorial of Brisbane’s Courier Mail on Friday, after giving an address to The Sopranos conference at Fordham [...]

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