Faculty of Humanities
J.A. Teurlings
dr. J.A. (Jan) Teurlings
Capaciteitsgroep Mediastudies University of Amsterdam


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Short Bio

Jan Teurlings studied mediastudies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and graduated in 1997. At the same university he then started a PhD project on two Belgian dating shows, Blind Date and Streetmate. Combining Foucaultian analytics of power and Actor-Network Theory, he studied how participants in dating shows (and in television at large) are managed by the production team. Having finished the PhD in 2004, he then joined the Mediastudies Department at Amsterdam University, where he has been mainly teaching television-related courses.

Research

Having first been drawn to non-Marxist approaches to media (Foucault and Latour), in recent years Jan is trying to complement this with Marxist approaches to media (political economy, Italian autonomism). He is especially interested in the dramatic changes taking place in the mediaindustry, not only in economic terms butalso in terms of technology, ideology, affect and praxis.

Key publications

Teurlings, J. (2001) “Producing the Ordinary: institutions, discourses and practices in love game shows”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 15 (2), pp.249-263.

De Kloet, J. & Teurlings, J. (2008). Digital convergence later: Broadcast Your Selves and Web karaoke”, in J. Kooijman, P. Pisters & W. Strauven (eds.) Mind The Screen: Media Concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam” Amsterdam University Press, 345-359.

Teurlings, J. (2004) “Het mediapubliek als cyborg in een netwerk: neomaterialisme, cultural studies en publieksstudies ”, in N. Carpentier, C. Pauwels & O. Van Oost (eds.) Het on(be)grijpbare publiek. Brussel: VUBPress, pp. 329-354.

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Forthcoming article: "After Politics, What is Left is the Police: PoliceVideos and the Neoliberal Order", to be published in in N. Carpentier & S. Van Bauwel (eds) Trans-Reality. Meta Perspectives on Reality TV. Lanham Maryland, Lexington Books.

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MediaLiteracy and the Challenges of Contemporary Media Culture: On Savvy Viewers and Critical Apathy (paper accepted by European Journal of Cultural Studies)

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Dating Shows and the Production of Identities: Institutional Practices and Power in Television Production - the PhD (2004)

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