Eggo Müller, Roberta Pearson, and William Uricchio discuss the origins and significance of the international distribution of television formats and programs.
Ian Condry Examines Japan’s Hip Hop
Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization is the realization of many years of work for Ian Condry, an associate professor of Japanese cultural studies in MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and a CMS faculty affiliate.
Web of Words: Poetry, Fandom and Globality
Media change, negotiation of literary value and postcolonial hybridity through a study of The Wondering Minstrels, a largely South-Asian community on the Web dedicated to the celebration of English poetry.
Disco Jalebi: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gay Bombay
I explore what being gay means to the members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world.
“Searching for the Origami Unicorn”: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling
Henry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
