James Poniewozik looks at 60 Minutes ' packaging of its interview with Obama, a strategy that the campaign itself has undertaken in the past.
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Last Sunday's cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a contemplative image of President Obama. We know he is deep in thought because of his posture. T...
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SemiObama is a participatory weblog that offers semiotic readings of the new visual culture surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. SemiObama looks closely at the visual representations of Obama and unpacks the various cultural, religious, national, and political icons and symbols surrounding him that are used to evoke meaning and emotional reaction. We will also write about the act of writing–decode the process of decoding–reading our own readings as a means of transparency and fuller critique.
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INDEX OF POSTS
Obama in China
Semi-O wakes from its slumber to post this fascinating story on Obamania in China: Watch CBS News Videos Online
Semi-O wakes from its slumber to post this fascinating story on Obamania in China: Watch CBS News Videos Online
Sherpard Fairey on Obama art
New York magazine writes about Fairey's new book.
New York magazine writes about Fairey's new book.
The Weekly Rader Grades Obama's Speech to the U.N.
Click on me to visit The Weekly Rader's evaluation of Mr. Obama's speech.
Click on me to visit The Weekly Rader's evaluation of Mr. Obama's speech.
Obama Beer
Obama Beer After about a month hiatus, SemiO is back with a good, solid summer post. Obama beer! Brewed here in the Bay Area by Half Moon Bay, the Mavericks ...
Obama Beer After about a month hiatus, SemiO is back with a good, solid summer post. Obama beer! Brewed here in the Bay Area by Half Moon Bay, the Mavericks ...
On Obama reading mainstream magazines
Another note showing that the president reads journalism as a source of information for policy decisions. One of the basic functions of journalism is to gath...
Another note showing that the president reads journalism as a source of information for policy decisions. One of the basic functions of journalism is to gath...
New York Times on Obama image
Check it out here .
Check it out here .
Obama Tours San Francisco
While President Obama was speaking to the nation about closing Guantanamo, he was also touring San Francisco via cable cars and the back of conversion vans. ...
While President Obama was speaking to the nation about closing Guantanamo, he was also touring San Francisco via cable cars and the back of conversion vans. ...
Obama as Spock?
See John Dickerson's take on Obama's idea of empathy....
See John Dickerson's take on Obama's idea of empathy....
Last Sunday's cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a contemplative image of President Obama. We know he is deep in thought because of his posture. T...
Racialicious on the Chia Obama
I hadn't seen this, but Racilicious breaks it down.
I hadn't seen this, but Racilicious breaks it down.
Jon Stewart and the Hope Poster
Jon Stewart uses a bit of Barack Obama symbolism in his take on the right's tyranny watch.
Jon Stewart uses a bit of Barack Obama symbolism in his take on the right's tyranny watch.
The HBO President
Politico and New York magazine's excellent Daily Intel have rundowns of Barack Obama and his family's television habits. His love for The Wire and televisi...
Politico and New York magazine's excellent Daily Intel have rundowns of Barack Obama and his family's television habits. His love for The Wire and televisi...
The Topps Trading Cards
Last week, I purchased my first pack of the "Inaugural Edition President Obama" Topps trading cards. It was a big day. Within five minutes I had purchased bo...
Last week, I purchased my first pack of the "Inaugural Edition President Obama" Topps trading cards. It was a big day. Within five minutes I had purchased bo...
More on Obama as Icon
Off an on throughout era Obama, we've been talking about Barack Obama as an icon . As we've said here and elsewhere , Obama's ubiquitous image and the places...
Off an on throughout era Obama, we've been talking about Barack Obama as an icon . As we've said here and elsewhere , Obama's ubiquitous image and the places...
Roundup on Obama in Europe
The Guardian' s Jonathan Freedland on Obama's first press conference in Europe as president. The New York Times on the symbolic nature of Obama's trip to Eur...
The Guardian' s Jonathan Freedland on Obama's first press conference in Europe as president. The New York Times on the symbolic nature of Obama's trip to Eur...
More Obama and Basketball
I think this says more about the media than it does about Barack Obama, but yet another prediction has come from our president: Lakers v. Cavs in the NBA fin...
I think this says more about the media than it does about Barack Obama, but yet another prediction has come from our president: Lakers v. Cavs in the NBA fin...
CJR analyzes the Professor Obama meme
and finds it derogatory.
and finds it derogatory.
What a President Does
President Obama is the leader of the United States. That much is certain, despite the protestations of some . But what is less clear is what it means to be p...
President Obama is the leader of the United States. That much is certain, despite the protestations of some . But what is less clear is what it means to be p...
Oba-Mart
Last week, I was in the Oakland Wal -Mart and came across a most unlikely sight--an entire display of framed photos of Barack Obama. As some scholars have no...
Last week, I was in the Oakland Wal -Mart and came across a most unlikely sight--an entire display of framed photos of Barack Obama. As some scholars have no...
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