Introduction: Watching (and feeling) contemporary TV : understanding the relationship among societal conflict, technological advancement, and television programming
Screening terror : how 9/11 affected twenty-first-century televisual fiction
Escaping reality by watching reality TV? Voyeurism, schadenfreude, and other coping mechanisms for avoiding or engaging in societal reflection
Performing and experiencing anger (through humor) : infotainment's increased visibility and political effect
"All the best cowboys have daddy issues" : a psychoanalytic reading of the father-child relationships on ABC's Lost
The trauma of post-apocalyptic motherhood : The walking dead's social commentary on contemporary gender roles
A country (still) divided : how vampire series use nostalgia to comment on current issues related to gender, race, and sexuality
Fictionalizing Ferguson in prime-time dramas : interrogating the potentialities and consequences of remediating events that are still in progress
Live tweets as social commentary? Analyzing how gender, race, and sexuality play into conceptions of morality in How to get away with murder
Defending the Bachelorette : what online comments from reality TV fans reveal about contemporary gender expectations, and livetweeting as a form of feminist digital activism
"I'm (not) with her" : how the political commentary surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election reflects anxieties concerning gender equality
Conclusion : screening emotion, archiving affect, circulating feelings : final thoughts and even more questions.