Summer 2013
Volume: 12 | Number: 3
Atlanta and Other Olympic Losers
Cities launch major campaigns to convince the International Olympic Committee to grace them with a staging of the Summer or Winter Games, and they spare no expense in readying their cities for the events. But will the promise of tourist riches and urban improvements pan out once the Olympic torch passes to the next host city? Read More
Queasy Questions About Media Effects
Increasingly violent media shows no signs of driving away audiences. Cynthia Chris explores the possibility of redemptive arcs as ripped-from-the-headlines stories play out on TV, but with happy endings, and, in the end, she still reaches for the remote. Read More
The Rise of the “Illegal Alien”
As media outlets move away from the term "illegal immigrant," Edwin F. Ackerman uses media analysis to track the rise of the term--and others--since the 1920s. Read More
Race and the Same-Sex Marriage Divide
When it comes to same-sex marriage, one might expect black Americans to be on board--if it's a civil rights question, why shouldn't they be? Marcus Anthony Hunter looks at some of the tangled past behind blacks' reluctance to accept gay marriage. Read More
Charter Schools
Scholars offer their widely differing takes on the success of charter schools, a "twenty-year experiment" in alternative education systems, largely based in for-profit, inner-city programs. Read More
Jeremy Lin’s Model Minority Problem
In 2012, an Asian American, Ivy-League educated basketball player captured the country's attention: what was it that made Jeremy Lin so exceptional, from his race to his physical and mental prowess to his athletic masculinity. In short: what led to the rise and fall of Linsanity? Will it have a legacy? Read More
