Tag: Television
How the Pentagon tried to cure America of its ‘Vietnam syndrome’
Paul Joseph, Tufts University
In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,” accompanied a unit of U.S. marines on a search-and-destroy mission to...
In defense of HBO’s counterfactual ‘Confederate’
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Fairfield University
In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series “Confederate,” a show that will take place in a...
Can transgender TV characters help bridge an ideological divide?
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Erica L. Rosenthal, University of Southern California and...
Why the creators of ’13 Reasons Why’ should pay attention to...
Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
Does it matter that people seem to have become more interested in suicide – expressing more suicidal thoughts, while...
A pair of decades-old policies may change the way rural America...
Christopher Ali, University of Virginia
While Americans were distracted by the very important public debates around an open internet and the proliferation of fake news...
How TV cultivates authoritarianism – and helped elect Trump
James Shanahan, Indiana University and Michael Morgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining...
What’s behind TV bingeing’s bad rap?
Elizabeth Cohen, West Virginia University
Call it Netflix’s spring binge.
At the end of March, Netflix released the critically acclaimed “13 Reasons...
The unique strategy Netflix deployed to reach 90 million worldwide subscribers
Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan
In just a decade, Netflix has grown from a video service with seven million U.S. subscribers to one...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
