William Uricchio
American media scholar
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Charles Uricchio is an American media scholar and Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Together with Henry Jenkins, he helped to build and direct MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. Uricchio was Principal Investigator of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. He is founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab. He is also author or editor of several books including We Europeans? Media, Representations, Identity; Media Cultures; Die Anfänge des deutschen Fernsehens: Kritische Annäherungen an die Entwicklung bis 1945; Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films; The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media; and Many More Lives of the Batman. Uricchio is series editor of the MIT Press Playful Thinking Series on game related topics.
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Published Works
- The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image (2011) (109)
- Television’s Next Generation: Technology/Interface Culture/Flow (2004) (100)
- The many lives of the Batman : critical approaches to a superhero and his media (1991) (87)
- Collaborative networks and the challenge to dominant conceptions of creative industries (2004) (80)
- Reframing Culture: The Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films (1993) (73)
- SIMULATION, HISTORY, AND COMPUTER GAMES (2004) (66)
- Historicizing Media in Transition (2010) (29)
- Mapping the Intersection of Two Cultures: Interactive Documentary and Digital Journalism (2016) (25)
- Same Bat Channel/Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory: The Many Lives of Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and His Media (1991) (24)
- The Recurrent (2012) (24)
- Moving beyond the artefact: Lessons from participatory culture (2009) (24)
- Contextualizing the Broadcast Era: Nation, Commerce, and Constraint (2009) (21)
- A ‘proper point of view’: The panorama and some of its early media iterations (2011) (20)
- TV as Time Machine: television’s changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history (2009) (17)
- Data, Culture and the Ambivalence of Algorithms (2017) (17)
- ‘I’m Not Fooled by that Cheap Disguise’ (2015) (16)
- A Palimpsest of Place and Past (2012) (16)
- Television's First Seventy-five Years: The Interpretive Flexibility of a Medium in Transition (2008) (15)
- Film, cinema, television … media? (2014) (13)
- Constructing the audience: Competing discourses of morality and rationalization during the nickelodeon period (1994) (12)
- Television as History: Representations of German Television Broadcasting, 1935-1944 (1992) (11)
- Storage , simultaneity , and the media technologies of modernity (2004) (11)
- We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009) (10)
- Manhattan's Nickelodeons New York? New York! William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson Comment on the Singer-Allen Exchange (1997) (9)
- How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport: Shakespeare and the cultural debate about moving pictures (1990) (9)
- Many More Lives of the Batman (2015) (8)
- 13. Things to come: the possible futures of documentary … from a historical perspective (2017) (7)
- Introduction to the history of German television, 1935–1944 (1990) (7)
- Virtually There: Documentary Meets Virtual Reality (2016) (6)
- TRANSITION 7 IMAG ( IN ) ING THE CITY : SIMONIDES TO THE SIMS (2008) (5)
- History and its shadow: thinking about the contours of absence in the construction of media history (2014) (5)
- Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form (2008) (4)
- PART 6: MEDIA CO-CREATION WITH NON-HUMAN SYSTEMS (2019) (4)
- The Recurrent, the Recombinatory and the Ephemeral (2011) (4)
- Dominant Conceptions of Creative Industries Beyond the Great Divide : Collaborative Networks and the Challenge to (2004) (4)
- WikiLeaks| True Confessions: WikiLeaks, Contested Truths, and Narrative Containment (2014) (3)
- PART 1: ‘WE ARE HERE’: STARTING POINTS IN CO-CREATION (2019) (3)
- Digital Technologies, Visual Research and the Non-Fiction Image (2012) (3)
- A ‘Proper Point of View’ (2012) (3)
- Beyond the Great Divide (2004) (3)
- Constructing television. Thirty years that froze an otherwise dynamic medium (2013) (3)
- Reassessing the Situation of the Text in the Algorithmic Age (2019) (3)
- High-definition Television, Big Screen Television and Television-guided Missiles, 1945 (1990) (2)
- A MEDIUM IN TRANSITION (2013) (2)
- Things to Come in the American Studies-Media Studies Relationship (2014) (2)
- From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine (2021) (2)
- Big picture, small screen. The relations between film and television - John Hill en Martin McLoone (red.), 1997 (1998) (2)
- "Films of Quality,""High Art Films," and "Films de Luxe": Intertextuality and Reading Positions in the Vitagraph Films. (1989) (2)
- Recommended for You : Prediction, Creation and the Cultural Work of Algorithms (2015) (2)
- Dante's Inferno and Caesar's Ghost: Intertextuality and Conditions of Reception in Early American Cinema (1990) (2)
- Beyond the Cliffhanger: Distributing Silent Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation (2001) (1)
- Television studies’ shifting disciplinary status: Anglo-American developments (1997) (1)
- Phantasia and Technè at the Fin-de-siècle (2005) (1)
- 3 What Is (Artificial) Intelligence (2018) (1)
- FROM AMOEBA TO REQUEST (1990) (1)
- German university dissertations with motion picture related topics: 1910–1945 (1987) (1)
- An image empire remembered: Ufa between memory and history (1993) (1)
- Replacement, Displacement, and Obsolescence in the Digital Age (2015) (1)
- The recurrent, the recombinatory and the ephemeral : thoughts on a textual system in transition (2017) (1)
- WikiLeaks: From Popular Culture to Political Economy (2014) (1)
- William Uricchio on the Colonization of the Data-Imaginary in the Public Service Sector (2018) (1)
- Notes from the Batcave (2015) (1)
- SU BMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES (2007) (1)
- Introduction : revisiting the Batman (2015) (1)
- CHAPTER ONE. Responses to Cultural Crisis: Political Domination and Hegemony (1993) (1)
- 2 Reclaiming Fun: What If We Consider Fun as the Anchor of an Aesthetics of Play? (2019) (1)
- The Greatest Art Form of the Twentieth Century (2014) (1)
- PART 4: MEDIA CO-CREATION WITH ON-LINE COMMUNITIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES (2019) (0)
- Do You Need to Be Intelligent to Play Games? (2019) (0)
- 6 Electric Kool—Aid Playground: What Happens When an Art Museum Plays with Beauty? (2019) (0)
- There’s More to the Camera’s Obscura Than Meets the Eye (2002) (0)
- Selling the Motion Picture to the fin de siècle American Public (2016) (0)
- Who is Francesca da Rimini? Problems of Historical Reception (2011) (0)
- Economic Obsolescence Is Fundamentally More Important Than Physical Obsolescence (2015) (0)
- A Turn in the Road of Media Studies (2020) (0)
- Nation, taste and identity: Hollywood remakes of European originals (1999) (0)
- Contextualizing the apparatus : film in the turn-of-the-century Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Consumers guide (2016) (0)
- From Amoeba to reQuest: a history and case study of Connecticut's CD-ROM-based statewide database (1990) (0)
- Final Report No. 867: Television Development and Application in Germany (1991) (0)
- The City Reviewed: Berlin's Film Image on the Occasion of its 750th Anniversary (2013) (0)
- 7 Automating Creativity (2018) (0)
- ISTORY , AND COMPUTER GAMES (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. The Film Industry's Drive for Respectability (1993) (0)
- PART 3: MEDIA CO-CREATION WITHIN COMMUNITY: “NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US” (2019) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. Biblical Qualities: Moses (1993) (0)
- When rules collide (2020) (0)
- Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon (2003) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. Historical Qualities: Washington and Napoleon (1993) (0)
- PART 5: ESTUARIES: MEDIA CO-CREATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES (2019) (0)
- 5 Growing a Mind and Learning to Play (2018) (0)
- Television’s Next Generation: Technology/ Interface Culture/Flow (2020) (0)
- PART 2: HOW TO CO-CREATE: PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE FIELD (2019) (0)
- Co-creating with AI (2023) (0)
- PART 7: ANALYSIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (2019) (0)
- About film historiography and film museums (2001) (0)
- From card catalog to OPAC: using CD-ROM to cross the great divide (1993) (0)
- Strictly Bollywood? Story. Camera, Armovement in Hindi Film Dance Thesis Supervisor Strictly Bollywood? Story, Camera and Movement in Hindi Film Dance Title: Professor in Foreign Language and Literatures (2006) (0)
- 4 Do Video Games Have Artificial Intelligence (2018) (0)
- APPENDIX. Vitagraph's Description of the Washington and Napoleon Films (1993) (0)
- TV and Early TV Audiences in Europe and the United States (2019) (0)
- P. Nulty, Private Eye, and the case of the purloined publisher (A gumshoe festschrift) (1992) (0)
- The anniversary stakes: high definition television in the 1930s (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. Literary Qualities: Shakespeare and Dante (1993) (0)
- The Many Lives of the Batman (2023) (0)
- Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew (eds) A Research Agenda for Creative Industries (2020) (0)
- From Broadcasting to Podcasting: Television and New Media (2007) (0)
- 4. Re-thinking the social documentary (2018) (0)
- Karsten Renckstorf, Denis McQuail, Nicholas Jankowsi (Hg.): Media Use as Social Action: A European Approach to Audience Studies (1996) (0)
- In the Beginning of AI, There Were Games (2019) (0)
- P. Nulty, private eye, in “Escape from Alcatraz” (1991) (0)
- Popular Culture and Advertising (1991) (0)
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