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Pre 2025 posts

News of Note--Global Internet Television Consortium

Not exactly a legitimate blog entry--but an announcement and redirection. For the last year, Ramon Lobato and I have been developing the Global Internet Television Consortium. The GITV Consortium collects media scholars from around the globe to develop and share research about the various forms internet-distributed television is taking in

Beyond Quality TV: The Medium Throughout the World

This summer, the editors of L'Atalante invited me to join a conversation about television. The conversation is published in Spanish, but here are my responses in English. If you read Spanish, check out the original for insights on these questions from scholars in France, Spain, Columbia, and New

Answers to Questions About Binge Watching

Do you believe television narrative will be influenced by binge-watching television? First we need a working understanding of “binge watching.” If you mean 8-10 episode marathons, I think that is an outlier behavior and it would be foolish for television producers to create texts with that experience in mind. If

Amandafesto--the blog--Coming Soon

Why on earth launch a blog in 2017? Good question. I was waiting to be sure about this whole internet thing? There just doesn’t seem to be enough to read online? Many reasons, but mainly that I often have thoughts longer than 140 characters yet shorter, and likely to