Michael Newman
Professor
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Bolton Hall 572
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, McGill University
Courses Taught
JAMS 101 — Introduction to Mass Media
JAMS 262 — Principles of Media Studies
JAMS 562 — Media Studies and Culture
JAMS 660 — Seminar in Contemporary Issues in Media Studies – New Media History
JAMS 855 — Topics in New Media – Old Media as New Media
JAMS 855 — Topics in New Media – What is the Internet?
JAMS 855 — Topics in New Media – Children and New Media
JAMS 860 — Seminar in Mass Communication: Indie Culture
JAMS 860 — Seminar in Mass Communication: New Media
JAMS 860 — Seminar in Mass Communication: Video Games
Research Interests
American cinema, television, and video games; media history, theory, and criticism.
Teaching Areas
Media studies
Selected Publications
Newman, Michael Z. The Media Studies Toolkit Routledge. 2022: 286
Newman, Michael Z. Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2017.
Newman, Michael Z. “Quality TV as Liberal TV” Western Humanities Alliance journal 70.3 Ed. Liu, Catherine. (2016).
Newman, Michael Z. Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Columbia University Press. 2014.
Newman, Michael Z. “Say Pulp Fiction One More Goddamn Time: Quotation Culture and an Internet-Age Classic” New Review of Film and Television Studies (2014).
Newman, Michael Z. “Free TV: File-Sharing and the Value of Television” Television & New Media 13.6 (2012): 463-479.
Newman, Michael Z., and Levine, Elana. Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status Routledge. 2011.
Newman, Michael Z. Indie: An American Film Culture Columbia University Press. 2011: 304 pages
Newman, Michael Z. “New Media, Young Audiences, and Discourses of Attention: From Sesame Street to “Snack Culture”” Media Culture & Society 32.4 (2010): 581-596.
Newman, Michael Z. “Indie Culture: In Pursuit of the Authentic Autonomous Alternative” Cinema Journal 48.3 (2009): 16-34.