Some time ago I co-wrote with Mélanie Bourdaa (Université Bordeaux 3) a couple of entries (on ‘Television and Social Media’ and ‘Fanpages’) for the Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics. I am glad to announce that the three-volume, 1640 pages encyclopedia has just been published by SAGE (in New York). To briefly […]
Benjamin W. L. Derhy Kurtz
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Quite a while ago, almost two years now, I wrote a chapter on the audience’s reaction to the Americanization of a British programme in a book edited by Rebecca Williams (University of Glamorgan). I am glad to announce that this book, entitled Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television, has recently be released. It […]
Want to be on TV? Must be young and pretty In 80 years of existence, the BBC has been called many things, ranging from innovative to the purveyor of ‘quality’, through pretentious or boring. For a number of years, though, the public channel has been increasingly deemed ‘ageist’ or ‘sexist’, […]