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Selections from my participation in the press
TV/Video
“The Devasting Disorder.” Independent Sources, CUNY TV. April 11, 2012.
“Biography: Hot, Famous and Forty.” The BIO Channel. July 28, 2011.
“Convercinema with Televisual’s Aymar Jean Christian.” Convercinema by Miles Maker. August 9, 2011.
“Annenberg’s Aymar Jean Christian on New Media and Film Production.” Annenberg School for Communication. March 10, 2011.
Radio
“Black TV Goes Online,” Here and Now, PRI/NPR. (Audio; Thoughts)
Print/Web
Interviewing/Quoting
“Black Web Series: Going Boldly Where TV Won’t,” Ebony
“Will Oxygen Cancel All My Babies’ Mamas?,” Ebony (picked up, The Root)
“Five Tyler Perry Movies You Must See,” E!
“Decoding the world wide Webbys,” USA Today.
“To Blacks, Precious is ‘Demeaned’ or ‘Angelic,’” New York Times. (My Thoughts)
“Why Do Women’s Magazines Pick Cover Girls Who ‘Don’t Work,’”Jezebel. (My Thoughts)
“A Web Series for Women That Stands On Its Own,”Jezebel.
“Death of Sitcoms, It Turns Out, Was Greatly Exagerrated,” Plain Dealer.
“Reflecting on LGBT reflections in cinema,” Philadelphia Gay News.
“Chatroulette: strangers exposed,” Daily Pennsylvanian.
“Black Filmmakers and TV Producers Taking Control Through the Web,” Altanta Post.
“Aymar Jean Christian, Web Series Critic-at-Large,”Perks, the Musical blog.
Linking to Televisual
“Antonini and Feldman on Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,“ Filmmaker Magazine.
“Netflix Originals Get More Original,” Daily Beast (The Dish).
“Why Isn’t Cybergeddon, the Most Expensive Web Series of All Time, Going Viral?“ Slate.
“Making All TV Like Stories?“ The Atlantic.
“Treme: Desperately Seeking a Storyline,” The Atlantic.
“Mike & Molly vs. Outsourced: Which New Series Is More Offensive?“ The Atlantic.
“Dude Won’t Give Arthur Kade a High Five,” Gawker (On my documentary short).”
Prime-Time Property,” Vanity Fair.
“Then There Was That Time A Bunch Of Penn Kids Came To The Office And Interviewed Sweeney About Arthur Kade,” Philebrity.
“Media, Entrepreneurship and Birth of a New Nation,” Huffington Post.
“Attack the Block: laugh riot?,” The Boston Phoenix.
“The Buzz 11/8/11,” The Root.
“Fandom as Industrial Practice? Christian on The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else.” Symposium (Transformative Works).
Select Articles I’ve Written in the Press
Best Web Series of 2012, indieWIRE.
“How YouTube Is Leaving Amateurs Behind,” Slate.
“Buppies–and Tatyana Ali–Finds a Home on the Web,” Wall Street Journal, Speakeasy.
ALL ARTICLES from Wall Street Journal
“Verizon Wireless Enrolls at Valemont U.” BusinessWeek.
“A New Night Life Dawns in the Suburbs,” Washington Post.
MORE ARTICLES from The Washington Post
“The New Black TV Guide,” The Root.
“Online Attraction Grows Into Offline Love,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
MORE ARTICLES from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Is Xtranormal the First Web Series App?“ Tubefilter.
“Furstenberg on Why Fashion Matters,” Newsweek.
“On Cable, Long Live the Anti-Hero,” Splice Today.
ALL ARTICLES from Splice Today
“Rise of the Black Network? Online and On-Air, Growing Alternatives to YouTube and BET,” Black Web 2.0.
“Why TV Still Loves Books,” Sparksheet.
