User:Jeremy Butler

I've taught film and television studies at the University of Alabama since 1980 and been a visiting professor at the University of Arizona. I've been involved with college and Public radio since 1972 and currently host "All Things Acoustic" on Alabama Public Radio. On June 1, 2020, I retired from full-time teaching/scholarship and became a professor emeritus. User:FloridaArmy was kind enough to create a Wikipedia article about me on September 7, 2020.

I'm the author of The Sitcom (NY: Routledge, 2019), Television Style (NY: Routledge, 2010), Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture, 5th edition (New York: Routledge, 2018; formerly titled, Television: Critical Methods and Applications) and the editor of Star Texts: Image and Performance in Film and Television (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).

My previous encyclopedia-writing experience was for the Encyclopedia of Television.

Online projects

 * JerCom Radio — site containing radio programs I've produced and hosted (specifically, All Things Acoustic and Progressions)
 * Radio programs on MixCloud
 * The 1970s in Black & White — a gallery of black & white photographs I shot in the 1970s—plus more recent work.
 * Crappy Software blog — "so much crappy software in the world..."
 * ScreenSite — a resource for film/TV students and teachers. Founded 1994.
 * ScreenLex — a pronunciation guide for film/TV students.
 * The Sitcom — the companion Website for the book, The Sitcom.
 * TVCrit.com — the companion Website for the book, Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture, formerly titled Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
 * Television Style — the companion Website for the book, Television Style.
 * My official homepage
 * I've been participating in Wikipedia since 17:36, March 23, 2005 — starting out as JButler. I didn't like that account name, because of its funky capitalization (i.e., Jbutler and jbutler don't equal JButler on Wikipedia). When I realized you could create an account name with a space in it, I switched to Jeremy Butler (27 August 2005).
 * Under the deprecated account, "JButler," I made 135 edits. And as "Jeremy Butler," I have made 11,995 edits (as of July 4, 2024)for a total of 12130 edits. Xtools maintains an up-to-date edit count. I'm mostly interested in articles dealing with folk music and film and television studies.

Online projects graveyard

 * Shot Logger — a database of editing statistics, based on shot lengths. Deprecated 2024, although its data are still available.
 * Laugh Logger — a database of laughtrack statistics, based on the interval between laughs. Deprecated 2024, although its data are still available.
 * Screen-L — an email discussion group for film/TV studies. Founded Fri, 15 Mar 1991 19:42:11 CST. Deprecated 2024.
 * The Telecommunication and Film Department, the University of Alabama
 * ScreenTags — an archive for film/TV hashtags culled from Twitter.
 * The Internet Folk Radio List — a directory of hundreds of radio programs that feature folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter, and international music.

Things to remember when wikiing
Stuff I constantly have to look up.

Ongoing projects

 * List of ancestors
 * Suggestions of articles that need to be created or edited:
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Projects/Suggestions
 * Wikipedia books (deprecated)
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Books/tvcrit/01 Ebb and Flow
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Books/tvcrit/09 Style and Editing
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Books/tvcrit/14 Glossary
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Books/Discourse and Identity: Race
 * User:Jeremy Butler/Books/21st-Century Comedies Centered on Unmarried Women