Archive for June, 2012

Report from the ATX Television Festival

June 10, 2012
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Report from the ATX Television Festival

What is a “television festival”? What might such an event look like? The answers emerged at the ATX Television Festival, held in downtown Austin, TX from June 1st to 3rd.
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The Cancellation of GCB and the Continued Discomfort with Televisual Camp

June 8, 2012
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The Cancellation of GCB and the Continued Discomfort with Televisual Camp

GCB represents ABC's recent attempt to incorporate camp aesthetics into a prime-time commodity, a gamble that ultimately was too risky for the network.
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Dish TV’s Auto Hop: Broadcast Networks Fight Back

June 6, 2012
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Dish TV’s Auto Hop: Broadcast Networks Fight Back

The broadcast networks respond to the introduction of Dish TV's new DVR, the Hopper, with outrage and litigation.
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Useful Media

June 4, 2012
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Useful Media

The coordinating editors of Velvet Light Trap's forthcoming issue are looking for submissions that investigate educational, industrial, and institutional media from a range of scholarly perspectives.
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M2AF: Message Received

June 1, 2012
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What I find surprising about gaming M2AFs is how often they quickly turn intimate, even if the only connection between sender and receivers is an ad hoc one established to gain an achievement. It is not uncommon to get a highly personal message of one kind or another.
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