Why Plagiarism is Bad

Plagiarism should never be tolerated.

If I was a Television Aesthete…

As much as I like the cultural studies/ethnographic research on how viewers read/use television and how these studies illustrate ways in which audiences have more power within such a commercial industry (Fiske), I am wary of throwing away any hope of establishing a television aesthetics . While the wrangling over whether or not television is (a) high art(form) will probably go on forever—as it does even within traditionally sanctioned high art forms (e.g., “Are Mapplethorpe photographs art or pornography?”-type debates)—I don’t think the...