Elke Weissmann starts, David Leventes Palatinus continues. Please feel free to chip in. A few years ago my wonderful supervisor, Christine Geraghty, asked me what my experience was of speaking to other academics about television. My experience was fine – people seemed interested and polite. They spoke about programmes that they enjoyed and compared their experiences to mine.
There is no doubt that the 2012-2013 TV season was the year of Turkish TV series on Greek Television. This year, Turkish TV series seem to follow with mathematical precision an order of causality that leads to their gradual disappearance.
In Matt Hills’ 2002 book Fan Cultures, he theorises the relationship between fandom and academia, in particular the way academia and fandom are often imagined as being mutually exclusive with academia, the ‘good subject’, dependent upon the fan as its ‘other’ in order to affirm its subjectivity and institutional legitimisation.
At last its time to re-launch CST Online. Things move fast in the online world. While the old site did its job, long have I yearned for a slick, clean looking site. That day has now come.