It’s tempting to go along with the notion of Daenerys as Mad Queen in Game of Thrones, but what if, instead Dany was the real heroine of the series, and Jon Snow the real heel?
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Fan culture is thriving in Westeros. Although HBO’s Game of Thrones has ended, fans will ensure that the show lives on (and changes) across multimedia platforms, long into the future.
According to a new study, those who have a tendency to sabotage their relationships may find solace in the fictional worlds of TV and movies.
The popular daytime television show has been axed. Here’s how programme makers can ensure proper aftercare fro reality show participants.
A physicist reflects on the show’s made-up Nobel Prize-winning theory of ‘super asymmetry’ along with how the series showcased authentic science and role models for future STEM students.
There have been ‘Jeopardy!’ greats who can easily answer all the questions, who have mastered the buzzer and who bet big on the Daily Doubles. But Holzhauer possesses an unprecedented level of daring.
For HBO, online piracy is not the huge issue it represents for the platforms that screen its content.
What will the decisive outcome mean for Ukraine’s relationship with Russian and the West?
For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
Thanks to the prevalence of technology, children are exposed to thousands of commercials a year. How can parents make their children more aware of how commercials influence what they think and do?
Our current golden age of TV storytelling is influenced by comic books, in particular, one writer: Chris Claremont pushed boundaries and gave audiences strong female leads and deeply involved dramas.
Unlike many of his predecessors, the US president is no vulture of culture.
With the latest series of Black Mirror, Netflix is driving television to new levels of interactivity.
Take note anyone planning to purchase an 8K television in the near future: Australians may have difficulty accessing image quality that will match the screen’s potential.
It made for brilliant viewing, but Channel 4’s Brexit drama missed out on some important details.
People who use an appliance a lot save more from an energy efficient model. With the right app, they could easily get a sense of their own potential savings when they shop.
This year, The Conversation celebrated the 50th anniversary of 1968 with its first podcast, ‘Heat and Light.’ These are some of the most interesting stories we uncovered – ones that still resonate in 2018.
Some say the hysteria over screen time echoes parents’ worries that their kids were watching too much TV in the 1980s. But new studies show there’s nothing overblown about parents’ growing concern.
Writing Apu out of The Simpsons is a simplistic solution to the issue of diversity in media. Instead, we need to support programming created by people of colour.
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Associate Professor of Screen Media, Victoria University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Television & Media Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Professor in Digital Media and Cutural Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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