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

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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 ʻTV Problemʼ: Cultural Critics and Technological Change.”

Technology & Culture 48.3 (July 2007).

“Little Players, Big Shows: Format, Narration, and Style on Televisionʼs 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

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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.

“Televisionʼs 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 ʻThe Future of

Television.ʼ” 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 Televisionʼs Futures (under preparation)

Non-refereed publications

“Level Who? Digital Distributionʼs 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

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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-russell-

hantz-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).

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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.

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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 Televisionʼs 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.

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

March 2008.

TV Everywhere: Mobile Televisionʼs 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.

Televisionʼs 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.

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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 Donʼt Want It Thinking Iʼm 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.

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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.

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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.