Feuer, in Regarding Television: Critical Approaches ed Kaplan, 983, 12-22 Doane in New Media, Old Media, ed Chun -- says this is partic true in times of catastrophe
Lovnik, Enemy of Nostalgia, in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 24, 1, 2002, 5-15 Also Lovnik in My First Recession, 2011, p8 Wark in The Weird Global Media Event... in New Media, Old Media ed Chun, 2006
Gorton 2009 Media Audiences: Television, Meaning, Emotion Kavka 2008 Reality Tv, affect and intimacy Kavka argues tv fulfills its function of intimacy, bringing things close -- collapse of distance and tiem through affective proximity