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Criminals and Anti-Heroes
Criminal Psychology
- Brandi Grissom, “A Tie to Mental Illness in the Violence Behind Bars”
- Alisa Bowman, “Is My Daughter a Serial Killer?”
- Judith Ohikuare, “Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath”
- Andrew Cohen, “One of the Darkest Periods in the History of American Prisons”
- James Q. Wilson, “Thinking about Crime”
- Scholarly Publications
- Ashley Donnelly, “The New American Hero: Dexter, Serial Killer for the Masses“
- Ross Bartels and Ceri Parsons, “The Social Construction of a Serial Killer“
Gender/Masculinity
- Akash Nicholas, “Where Is the Female Tony Soprano?”
- Todd Van Der Werff, “‘Breaking Bad’s’ Racial Politics: Walter White, Angry White Man”
- Associated Press, “The Death of the Stoic US Male”
- Laura Hudson, “Die Like a Man: The Toxic Masculinity of Breaking Bad“
- Scholarly Publications
- Julia Leyda, “‘White’ Masculinity: Breaking Bad and the Return of the Reluctant Hero”
- Isabel Santaularia, “Dexter: Villain, Hero, or Simply a Man?”
- Nicky Falkof, “The Father, the Failure and the Self-Made Man: Masculinity in Mad Men“
Humor and Political Satire
- Paul Babbitt, “Taking Bulls**t Seriously”
- Scholarly Publications
- Joseph Faina, “Public Journalism is a Joke: The Case for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert”
- E. M. Dadlez, “Truly Funny: Humor, Irony, and Satire as Moral Criticism”
- Geoffrey Baym, “The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism”
- Liesbet Van Zoonen, “Obama’s Brother: Humor and Satire in the Dutch Coverage of the US Presidential Elections”
- Jason A. Scorza, “Liberalism and the Politics of Irreverence: The Joke’s the Thing”
- Carrie A. Cihasky, “Late Night Comedy’s Influence on Perceptions of Presidential Candidates”
- Catherine Burwell, “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Politics and Parody in Fan Culture”
- Multimedia
- Daily Show, “Occupy Wall Street Divided”
- Daily Show, “What Not to Buy”
Play: Game and Sport
Digital Gaming
- Pamela Paul, “Reading, Writing, and Video Games”
- Nick Bilton, “Minecraft, a Child’s Obsession, Finds Use as an Educational Tool”
- Scholarly Publication
- Graeme Kirkpatrick, “Controller, Hand, Screen Aesthetic Form in the Computer Game”
- Beasley Berrin and Tracy Collins Standley, “Shirts vs. Skins: Clothing as an Indicator of Gender Role Stereotyping in Video Games”
- Isabela Granic, et al. “The Benefits of Playing Video Games”
- Sara Mosberg Iversen, “In the Double Grip of the Game: Challenge and Fallout 3“
- John Alberti, “The Game of Reading and Writing: How Video Games Reframe Our Understanding of Literacy”
- Multimedia
- Critical Gameplay
- Jane McGonigal, “The Game That Can Give You 10 Years of Extra Life”
- Phone Story
- Games for Change
- Gaming Against Plagiarism
- Ari Shapiro, “Biden Meets with Video Game Makers to Discuss Gun Violence”
- Daphne Bavelier, “Your Brain on Video Games”
Sports
- Nolan Feeney, “A Brief History of Sexism in TV Coverage of the Olympics”
- Warren St. John, “Nick Saban: Sympathy for the Devil”
- David Zirin, “The NCAA: Poster Boy for Corruption and Exploitation”
- Scholarly Publications
- Stacy L. Lorenz and Rod Murray, “Goodbye to the Gangstas”
- Ryan T. Lewinson and Oscar E. Palma, “The Morality of Fighting in Ice Hockey”
- Ellis Cashmore and Andrew Parker, “One David Beckham? Celebrity, Masculinity, and Soccerati”
- Ronald Bishop, “Missing in Action: Feature Coverage of Women’s Sports in Sports Illustrated”
- Lloyd L. Wong and Ricardo Trumpet, “Global Celebrity Athletes and Nationalism”
- Janet S. Fink and Linda Jean Kensicki, “An Imperceptible Difference: Visual and Textual Construction of Femininity”
- Multimedia
Privacy and Surveillance
- Jason Harrington, “Dear America, I Saw You Naked”
- Diane Cardwell, “At Newark Airport, the Lights are One, and They’re Watching You”
- Conor Friedersdorf, “The Single Best Overview of What the Surveillance State Does With Our Private Data”
- Bruce Schenier, “Don’t Listen to Google and Facebook: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership is Still Going Strong”
- Glenn Greenwald, “NPR’s Domestic Drone Commercial”
- “Protecting Privacy from Ariel Surveillance”
- Scholarly Publications
- Roger Clarke and Marcus Wiggins, “You are Where You’ve Been: The Privacy Implications of Location Tracking Technologies”
- Joshua Reeves, “If You See Something, Say Something: Lateral Surveillance and the Uses of Responsibility”
- Eben Moglen, “The Tangled Web We Have Woven”
- Multimedia
- CBS News, “Drones:Eyes in the Sky”
- Colbert Nation, “Difference Makers – Philip Steel”
- TED Radio, “The End of Privacy”
- TED, “Why Privacy Matters”
- YouTube, “The Get Out Clause”
- TED, “No Roads? There’s a Drone for That.”
The Apocalypse
- Decca Aitkenhead, “James Lovelock: Enjoy Life While You Can: In 20 Years Global Warming will Hit the Fan”
- John Jurgensen and Jamin Brophy-Warren, “Entertainment and Culture: Hollywood Destroys the World”
- Steve Almond, “A Culture that Lurches About With the Shadow of Its Own Extinction”
- Shafer Parker, Jr., “The Best of Times, The End of Times”
- Michael Vlahos, “The Civilization Significance of Zombies”
- Aoife Moriarty, “Worst Dystopia to Live In?”
- Matt Ridley, “Apocalypse Not: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Worry About End Times”
- Scholarly Publications
- Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, “Disaster Movies and the ‘Peak Oil’ Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the United States?”
- Susan Sontag, “The Imagination of Disaster”
- Simon Orpana, “Spooks of Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks”
- Mulitmedia
- YouTube, “Doomsday Bunkers”
- The Atlantic Video, “NASA Patiently Explains Why the Mayan Apocalypse is *Definitely* Not Happening”
- The Daily Beast, “Mr. and Mrs. Apocalypse”
Digital Culture
- Nick Bilton, “Dropping the Tedium of Typing for Photos that Say It All”
- Stephen Marchie, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”
- David Brooks, “What Machines Can’t Do”
- Barbara Fredrickson, “Your Phone Vs. Your Heart”
- Scholarly Publications
- Dana Fleming, “Youthful Indiscretions”
- N. Katherine Hayles, “Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes”
- Nancy Herther, “Digital Natives and Immigrants”
- Anne West, Jane Lewis, and Peter Currie, “Students’ Facebook ‘Friends'” Public and Private Spheres”
- Multimedia
- YouTube, Her Trailer
- TED, “How the Internet Enables Intimacy”
- MIT, “Sensory Fiction”
- TED, “The Tribes We Lead”
Digital Literacies
- Sherry Turkle, How Computers Change the Way We Think
- Jim Giles, The Oracle of Facebook
- David Hadju, Imperfect Pitch
- Helen Knight, The Decision Lens
- Dana Fleming, Youthful Indiscretions
- Stephen Marche, Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
- Nancy Herther, Digital Natives and Immigrants
- Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
- Scholarly Publications
- Sociology: Anne West, Jane Lewis, & Peter Curry, Students’ Facebook “Friends”: Public and Private Spheres
- Psychology: Yoram Eshet-Alkalai and Eran Chajut, Changes Over Time in Digital Literacy
- Psychology: Melissa Terlecki, et al., Sex Differences and Similarities in Video Game Experience, Preferences, and Self-Efficacy: Implications for the Gaming Industry
Food
- Sarah Zielinski, 13th Century Food Fights Helped Fuel the Magna Carta
- Daniel Stone, Forget the Starbucks
- Emma Mustich, Walmart’s War on the American Food System
- Candice Choi, Skittles Joins Food Brands at the Center of Tragedy
- Sutton Stokes, “The Right Thing to Do”: Taking a Closer Look at Quaker Oats
- Laura Fraser, The French Paradox
- NPR Blog, What Pizza Hut’s Crown Crust Pizza Says about Global Fast Food Marketing
- Scholarly Publications
- Anthropology: Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Willing to Work: Agency and Vulnerability in an Undocumented Immigrant Network
- Medicine: Malcolm Law & Nicholas Wald, Why Heart Disease Mortality Is Low in France: The Time Lag Explanation
- Social Psychology: Harold A. Herzog & Lauren L. Golden, Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights
Immigration
- National Conference of State Legislatures, 2007 Enacted State Legislation Related to Immigrants and Immigration
- Teaching Tolerance, A Note to Young Immigrants
- Mark Krikorian, DREAM On
- Kevin Clarke, Born in the U.S.A.
- Scholarly Publications
- Popular Culture: Maxine Margolis, Transnationalism and Popular Culture: The Case of Brazilian Immigrants in the United States
- Sociology: Anita Ortiz Maddali, Sophia’s Choice: Problems Faced by Female Asylum-Seekers and Their U.S.-Citizen Children
- Gender Studies and Law: Allison S. Hartry, Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System
Sustainability
- Andrew C. Revkin, Carbon-Neutral is Hip, But is it Green?
- David Tilman & Jason Hill, Fuel for Thought: All Biofuels Are Not Created Equal
- Nicholas D. Kristof, Our Gas Guzzlers, Their Lives
- Daniel C. Esty & Michael E. Porter, Pain at the Pump? We Need More
- Charles Krauthammer, Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill
- Vandana Shiva, The Soil vs. the Sensex
- Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
- Pual Hawken, Natural Capitalism
- Burton Richter, Seeing Energy in Three Dimensions
- Bryan Walsh, Pedal Push
- Scholarly Publications
- Ecology: Kent Portney, Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: A Comparative Analysis of Twenty-four US Cities
- Philosophy and Economics: Richard Raatzsch, On the Notion of Sustainability
- Sociology: Wittman, Hannah, Mary Beckie, and Chris Hergesheimer, Linking Local Food Systems and the Social Economy? Future Roles for Farmers’ Markets in Alberta and British Columbia
- Ethics: Andrew Fiala, Nero’s Fiddle: On Hope, Despair, and the Ecological Crisis
Visual Rhetoric
- Robert Barron, Friendly Persuasion
- Karen S. Hoffman, Visual Persuasion in George W. Bush’s Presidency: Cowboy Imagery in Public Discourse
- Linda Scott, Images in Advertising: The Need for a Theory of Visual Rhetoric
- James Helmer, Love on a Bun: How McDonald’s Won the Burger Wars
- Terry Barrett, Interpreting Visual Culture
- Scholarly Publications
- Art: Dora Apel, Torture Culture: Lynching Photographs and the Images of Abu Ghraib
- Political Science: Donna R. Hoffman and Alison D. Howard, Representations of 9-11 in Editorial Cartoons
- Law:Stephen Wisotsky, Sounds and Images of Persuasion: A Primer
- Business: Kathleen Seiders and Ross D. Petty, Obesity and the Role of Food Marketing: A Policy Analysis of Issues and Remedies