Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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Music
SCMS + SXSW = ?
Adventures in Music Video
On the heels of the popularity of the Rube Goldberg video for “This Too Shall Pass,” OK Go announced that it was leaving an already beleaguered EMI to establish its own label Paracadute Recordings. Quickly a story emerged treating OK Go as the musical David fighting the evil Goliath of EMI.
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?
Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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Simon Says Cheerio
Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. But ironically to keep the "American" in American Idol, the show needs Simon, or at least an angry, pompous, belittling Brit judge like him.
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Review: The View From The Afterparty
By Megan Biddinger and Christopher Cwynar
R. Kelly has been in the news of late for his alleged indiscretions, his outlandish serialized ‘Hip Hopera’ Trapped in the Closet, and the baroque 'sexaphors' that drive his self-reflexive club jams. However, during Kelly's recent stop in Milwaukee, salaciousness took a backseat to earnestness and gratitude as he...
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