“Choice Fatigue,” Community and the Mutations of Television Graeme Turner /...
The proliferation of choice It was in John Ellis’s work that I first encountered the notion of ‘choice fatigue’: the ‘feeling that choices are simply too difficult; a nostalgia for pattern, habit and...
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Auchenflower Under Water Where I live has become, officially, a disaster zone. The state of Queensland in Australia is large; it is bigger than Texas, and seven times larger than the United Kingdom....
View Article‘Liveness’ and ‘Sharedness’ Outside the Box Graeme Turner / University of...
What Television Was Having just begun the process of writing something like this myself, I have discovered that there is an emerging mini-genre in television studies of essays or chapters in books...
View ArticleMedia, community, and zones of consumption Graeme Turner / University of...
Facebook’s Promotion of Virtual Community For some time now I have been working in collaboration with several colleagues1 on a project investigating the role television and new media now play in...
View ArticleTelevision studies, new media, and the divided curriculum Graeme Turner /...
Old Media and New Media I wonder if anyone else in media studies is bothered by this. The following comments are provoked by what seems to me to be an increasingly institutionalised split within the...
View ArticleHow to become a TV star Graeme Turner / University of Queensland
The Logie Award Let me give some background to this first. The Australian equivalent to the American Emmys is called the Logies –after the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, one of the major...
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