About
I’m currently an Associate Professor of
Film and Media Arts and Associate Dean of Faculty in the
Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. My current research interests focus on the fate of physical media in the digital age, and more broadly on how older media forms, texts, and objects “age.” At SMU, I teach courses on media industries and media history. As Associate Dean, I’m most interested in updating our policies and practices of faculty hiring and review to help build a School that’s more efficient, flexible, inclusive, and transparent.
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I've started a Bluesky account, due to the groundswell of folks in my networks who never made the move over here. I'm still on the Fedi at this account as well, but may decide if/how to make these accounts more distinct. Anyway, come follow me over there as well! https://bsky.app/profile/dkompare.bsky.social (2024-11-30 ↗)
Test – Complete the sequence: SQUAWK! Hallelujah! ? (2024-11-22 ↗)
I'm so Gen X I automatically play appropriate music cues and sound effects from ancient TV shows in my head for every situation I encounter. #Television #GenX (2024-11-21 ↗)
Really looking forward to the upcoming game Hollywood Animal. Here's a nice explanation of why and how they went with a detailed but playful 2D design in an era when even strategy games are 3D. #Games https://youtu.be/HQZZOFVSXx8?si=MnNdd6cZ_yuKaX2P (2024-11-19 ↗)
In having to contend with AI despite not remotely wanting to, I find myself wondering about all the food companies and restaurants that had to deal with the onslaught of high fructose corn syrup and McDonald's-style processing in the 1960s and 1970s. #AI #HigherEd (2024-11-18 ↗)
Publications
Books
Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries
(co-edited with Derek Johnson and Avi Santo), NYU 2014
CSI, Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television, Routledge 2005
Articles
“The Peabody Awards Collection and the Construction of American Local Media History,” in Ethan Thompson, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Lucas Hatlen, eds.,
Television History, The Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory (33-45), University of Georgia Press, 2019
“Media Studies and the Internet,”
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59.1 (2019) 134-41
“MeTV: Old-Time TV’s Last Stand?,” in Derek Johnson, ed.,
From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels (85-93)
, Routledge 2018
“Fan Curators and the Gateways into Fandom,” in Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, eds.,
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (107-13), Routledge 2018
“Flow,” in Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray, eds.,
Keywords For Media Studies (72-74), NYU 2017
“Landmark Television: The Twilight Zone,” in Jason Mittell and Ethan Thompson, eds.,
How To Watch Television (299-307), NYU 2013
“Filling The Box: Television in Higher Education,”
Cinema Journal 50.4 (2011), 161-65
“More ‘Moments of Television’: Online Cult Television Authorship,” in Michael Kackman et al, eds.,
Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence (95-113), Routledge 2011
“Reruns 2.0: Revising Repetition for Multi-Platform Television Distribution,”
Journal of Popular Film and Television 38.2 (2010), 79-83
“The Benefits of Banality: Syndication in the Post-Network Era,” in Amanda D. Lotz, ed.,
Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (55-74), Routledge 2009
“Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as ‘An American Family’,” in Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, eds.,
Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2nd Ed.) (100-119), NYU 2009
“Publishing Flow: DVD Box Sets and the Reconception of Television,”
Television and New Media 7.4 (2006), 335-60
“’Greyish Rectangles’: Creating the Television Heritage in the 1970s,”
Media History 9.2 (2003), 153-69
“I’ve Seen This One Before: The Construction of ‘Classic TV’ on Cable Television,” in Janet Thumim, ed.,
Small Screens, Big Ideas: Television in the 1950s (19-34), I.B. Tauris 2001
