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Dear Colleagues Our latest CST guest blog is now live - Passive or Active? The Old Conundrum by Geoff Lealand - about the thorny old debate over whether we passively watch TV or whether the audience is now far more active than ever. We have a review of the second season of Episodes (which has just started screening in the States) by our American friend David Bianculli - don't forget to visit his website TV Worth Watching for the best reviews of American TV. Our CST blog this week is an old one. Due to work commitments Janet and I decided to re-run the first ever column we wrote for the old Critical Studies in Television site. Written in October 2008, Writing TV into Discourse is a rumination on the TV archive and how access to TV is changing in the digital age. It makes for interesting reading some 3 1/2 years later and contains a clip of Ugly Betty in Arabic which, in some kind of weird synchronicity, is the book we were working on this week! Anyway, enjoy. Best wishesKim Kim AkassCSTonline -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------