Television studies scholars: Podcasts of research presentations

Generation(s) of Television Studies

This research symposium took place at the University of Georgia in Athens on 12 April 2013. Its purpose was to assess the state of the art in television studies while also recognizing the formative contributions to the field by Dr. Horace Newcomb.

Program Podcast Video

The afternoon program consisted of presentations from a number of leading scholars of television, media and culture.

Each presentation can be viewed by clicking the corresponding link below. 

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Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan), "The Cumulative Narrative of the Cumulative Narrative of Television Studies"

James Hay (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana), "Revisiting the Contradictions of the Birth of 

Television Studies--and Why That is Worth Doing Now"

David Thorburn (MIT), "Unstable Platforms: Television in the Digital Age"

Alisa Perren (Georgia State University), "Producer's Medium to Producer's Media: The Showrunner's Shifting Authority in the Convergent Era"

Tom Schatz (University of Texas at Austin), "Never the Twain Shall Meet: Film Studies, Television Studies, and the Nagging Issue of Authorship"

Jeff Jones (Old Dominion University), "Politics and/of the Cultural Forum"

Grady College Dean Cully Clark accepts support from Steve Koonin (President, Turner 

Entertainment Networks) to establish the Koonin Scholars Fund

Dr. Horace Newcomb (University of Georgia), Response