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In this latest post in Antenna's The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Paul Booth examines Doctor Who fan celebrations and conventions and how they demonstrate the continued affective and communal power of the cult television franchise.
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The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues today with a new post on Sounding Out! from Jacob Smith about the Mercury Theatre's 1938 radio play "Hell On Ice" as a proto-environmental critique that is as relevant today as it was 75 years ago.
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Ten or more media industry news stories from the past two weeks.
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On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this post considers how fictional depictions of Kennedy represent history and engage cultural memory.
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In this latest post in Antenna's The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Jenna Stoeber discusses the recent "The Night of the Doctor" mini-episode and its impact on canonical knowledge of the series.
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Melanie Kohnen reports to Antenna from her recent experience at Digital Day at the New York Television Festival, and discusses how the NYTF is shifting the focus of Digital Day away from second screen apps offering program-related content towards TV network-preferred Twitter.
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In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Each year, the musician advocacy nonprofit group Future of Music Coalition holds a conference in Washington, DC, bringing together artists, executives, and policymakers. Reporting from this year's Future of Music Summit, Tim Anderson finds that despite the music industry's many troubles, much optimism still exists.
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In this latest entry in The Aesthetic Turn series, Kyle Conway considers the aesthetic experience of media, using translation and metaphor to turn our attention away from the object and toward our experience of media in the age of convergence.
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One of the defining characteristics of Doctor Who is that, despite its academic and popular scrutiny, there are many gaps in its history, which remind us that histories - including media histories - are always only assembled from the perspective of the present.
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Jeremy Morris provides a report from the Apps and Affect conference held back in mid-October, which brought together a wide range of new media scholars to examine the relations between mobile apps and their networked context.
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In the final installment of this four-part series, love is the theme shared between Spike Jonze's HER, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Ralph Fiennes' The Invisible Woman.
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A full rundown of all the information you'll need to know to participate in tonight's #WOTW75 collective listening experiment, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' and the Mercury Theatre's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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Analyzing the role of the Doctor's female companions, Keara Goin argues that despite her independence and brash image, Clara Oswald is little more than the Doctor's caretaker and a re-packaging of the traditional mother archetype.
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