Peripheral Response - Ursula

 A couple of questions I found myself asking after thinking about the readings:

Both articles seem focused on the here-and-now and possible future of production and content. I am curious what their arguments might say about perceptions of television from a different time/ decade? Does the reluctance to address social issues in television/mass media in the 1950s mean that image created of the 1950s in public consciousness today is one further removed from social issues and controversial topics of the time?

How would these readings deal with fans and fandom as active participants whether through magazines, social media, or other forums? ie) how would these authors respond to Henry Jenkin's Textual Poachers?

As others have mentioned in their responses, I am curious how these readings drawing exclusively from a pre-cable American television context hold-up in a current, global setting. If television is being made explicitly for international export, this complicates the idea of an audience and ideological hegemony confined within a nation state. Theres a LOT that can be brought in here: remakes, export of formats vs. exports of full programs, the global spread of  American television programs, the existence of international programs on streaming services, and a plethora of remakes of international formats on American television...

And finally, what would they have to say about reality television? It both beautifully supports and complicates their arguments.