MAX DAWSON

Department of Radio, TV & Film Northwestern University Annie May Swift Hall Room 213 1920 Campus Drive Evanston, IL USA 60208 email: max ~at~ northwestern ~dot~ edu web: televisionfutures.wordpress.com

Professional Appointments
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Assistant Professor, Department of Radio, TV & Film 2009 present

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture 2008 9

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Lecturer, Department of Radio, TV & Film 2007 Loyola University, Chicago, IL Lecturer, Communications Studies Department 2007 Columbia College, Chicago, IL Lecturer, Television Department 2006

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication 2003

Education
Northwestern University, Department of Radio, TV & Film, Evanston, IL PhD., August 2008, Screen Cultures Program

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia M.A., March 2004, Department of Media and Communications

Brown University, Providence, RI B.A., May 1999, Department of Modern Culture and Media

Publications
Peer-reviewed articles Home Video and the TV Problem: Cultural Critics and Technological Change. Technology & Culture 48.3 (July 2007).

Little Players, Big Shows: Format, Narration, and Style on Televisions New Smaller Screens. Convergence 13.3 (August 2007).

Television Between Analog and Digital. Journal of Popular Film and Television 38.2 (June 2010).

Failure to Communicate: Promoting Mobile Television in the United States. Under review, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture

Chapters in edited collections Television and Digital Media (with Lynn Spigel). In Catherine Morley and Martin Halliwell (eds.), American Thought and Culture in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Televisions Aesthetic of Efficiency: Convergence Television and the Digital Short. In James Bennett and Niki Strange (eds.), Television As Digital Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Television Abridged: Ephemeral Texts, Monumental Seriality, and TV-Digital Media Convergence. In Paul Grainge (ed.), Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube. London: BFI, 2011.

From Broadcasting to Multicasting: The Mobile Phone and The Future of Television. In Kelly Gates (ed.), Media Futures. London: Blackwell, 2012.

The Office: Working Overtime on Multiplatform TV. In Jason Mittell and Ethan Thompson (eds.), How to Watch Television. Under review, Routledge.

Book manuscript The Histories of Televisions Futures (under preparation)

Non-refereed publications Level Who? Digital Distributions Mysterious Middlemen. Net Worth: Media Distribution in the Digital Era Conference Proceedings. Media Industries Project, Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, forthcoming.

The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again). In Media Res. June 18, 2007. URL: http://bit.ly/ePVDw7

4 Non-refereed publications (continued) You know what my favorite promotion is? Lost! The ongoing convergence of content and promotion." In Media Res. February 17, 2009. URL: http://bit.ly/h9chQW

Convert Now! Crowdsourcing DTV Outreach. In Media Res. October 6, 2009. URL: http://bit.ly/hKpgp2

Face to Face with the E-Waste of Tomorrow at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Flow. February 5, 2010. URL: http://bit.ly/dT7Vj8

Watching Twitter on TV. Antenna. February 25, 2010. URL: http://bit.ly/atP7NG

The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad. Antenna. April 5, 2010. URL: http://bit.ly/bZII9M

The State of Reality TV: Survivor. Antenna. February 16, 2010. URL: http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/02/15/the-state-of-reality-tv-russellhantz-and-the-new-survivor/

Book reviews James L. Baughman, The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America Since 1941, Johns Hopkins UP; Baltimore, 2006. Journal of Popular Television and Film (Spring 2007).

Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home, University of California Press; Berkeley, 2006. Technology & Culture 48.2 (April 2007).

5 Book reviews (continued) Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect, MIT Press; Cambridge, 2004. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 26.2 (June 2006).

Presentations
Invited presentations Industrial Practices (Roundtable participant). University of Wisconsin-Madison TV Comedy Conference, Madison, WI, October 2011.

Television as Obsolete Medium. Medium to Medium Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2011.

Technologies of Digital Distribution (Roundtable participant). Net Worth: Media Distribution in the Digital Era Conference, Carsey-Wolf Center, Santa Barbara, CA, February 2011.

Public lecture: Timeline Theater Sunday Scholars Series, The Farnsworth Invention. Chicago, IL, October 2010.

Public lecture: Timeline Theater Sunday Scholars Series, Frost/Nixon. Chicago, IL, May 2010.

Digital Television and Technological Citizenship. Stanford University Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society, Palo Alto, CA, November 2010.

The Object of Television History. Chicago Film Seminar, Chicago, IL, October 2010.

6 Invited lectures (continued) The Long and Short of Digital Narration. Television (Studies) Goes Digital Conference, London, UK, September 2007.

Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Mobile Television Interfaces. Midlands Television Research Group, Warwick, UK, February 2007.

Looking Busy: Television, Work, and Productivity. University of Warwick, UK, February 2007.

Conference presentations Requiem for the CRT: Television, Obsolescence, and the Material of Memory. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2011.

Putting the Television Back in TV Studies (Roundtable organizer and participant). Flow Conference on Television Studies, Austin, TX, October 2010.

Putting the Television Back in TV History. Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2010.

Promotion, Authorship, and Labor at Televisions Limits. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2010.

Between Promos and Content: Renegotiating the Television Text. The Promotional Surround Workshop, Nottingham, UK, July 2009.

Convert Your Mom: The Visual Culture of the Digital Television Transition. Unthinking Television Conference, Fairfax, VA, March 2009.

7 Conference presentations (continued) Mobile Television (Roundtable participant). Flow Conference on Television Studies, Austin, TX, October, 2008.

Out of the Box: Television as New Media (workshop organizer and moderator). Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2008.

Network Televisions Lost Boys: TV, New Media, and the Elusive Male Viewer. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 2008.

TV Everywhere: Mobile Televisions Mobile Publics. Urban Representations Conference, Evanston, IL, May 2007.

Fingering the Digital: Television in the Palm of Your Hand. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007.

Programming in an Era of Video Abundance (Roundtable participant). Flow Conference on Television Studies, Austin, TX, October 2006.

Irrigating the Vast Wasteland: Home Video and the TV Problem. Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Las Vegas, NV, October 2006.

Televisions New Small(er) Screen Aesthetics. Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2007.

Outsourcing TV: Masculinity, Technology, and the New Productive Leisure. Console-ing Passions Conference, Milwaukee, WI, March 2006.

8 Conference presentations (continued) Do More, Miss Nothing: Television, New Media, and Domestic Space. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2006.

Real-time Television in the Era of Timeshifting. Out of Time Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005.

I Dont Want It Thinking Im an Axe Murderer: TiVo, Collaborative Filtering, and TV Taste Panics. Midwestern Popular Culture Association Conference, St Louis, MO, October 2005.

The Responsibilities of the Viewer in the War on Terror. Visible Evidence XII, Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

The Production of the Viewer as Witness. Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2005.

Television and Terrorism. Merging Methodologies Graduate Student Conference, Evanston, IL, November 2005.

9/11, Bearing Witness, and the War on Terror. Film and History Conference, Dallas, TX, October 2004.

Professional and Community Service

Coordinator, Screen Cultures Colloquium and Guest Speaker Series, 2009 Present.

Co-Organizer, Medium to Medium Conference, May 2010.

Northwestern University Communications Residential College Faculty Fellow, 2011 present.

Department of Radio, TV & Film Representative, School of Communications Honors Committee, 2010 present.

Screen Cultures PhD. Program Graduate Admissions Committee, 2009 10; 2010 11.

Faculty adviser, Massive.TV (Northwestern University undergraduate student media group), 2009 present.

Screen Cultures Faculty Search Committee, 2009; 2010.

School of Communications Gaming and Interactive Media Design Major Committee, 2009 10.

Department of Radio, TV & Film Interactive Media Module Design Committee, 2009 present.

Book reviews editor, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 2010 present.

10 Service (continued) Article and manuscript reviewer for Technology & Culture, Games and Culture, Television and New Media, Convergence, New Media and Society, Media History, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, Routledge.

Paid and unpaid professional consultation for Warner Bros. Media Research and Insights, A&E Television, Idea Factory.

Quoted as an expert source in articles in Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Illinois Observer, Northwest Herald, Daily Northwestern, Indiana Daily Student, UWire: The College Network.