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Case Studies in Technological Change

March 10, 2014
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Case Studies in Technological Change

To paraphrase Robert Allen and Douglas Gomery in Film History: Theory and Practice, media depends on machines. Technology contextualizes industrial and stylistic change, reveals and obscures sites of cultural negotiation and meaning, and enables new modes of media production, circulation, and reception. The significance of technology to media studies has only become more acute...
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What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25

May 26, 2013
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What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Phones Coming to a Theater Near You?

May 23, 2013
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Phones Coming to a Theater Near You?

Some influential figures of the cinema world are tentatively exploring a loosening of bans on cell phones during select screenings, refueling the ever-controversial debate of movie theater etiquette.
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