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Rethinking Media Distribution

November 20, 2013
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Rethinking Media Distribution

Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10

November 10, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10

Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

October 27, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Is Orange the New Television?

October 22, 2013
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Is <i>Orange</i> the New Television?

The success of Netflix's original series Orange is the New Black says something about our culture’s readiness for complex, sexually diverse female characters.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 30 – Oct 13

October 13, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Sept 30 – Oct 13

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Fall Premieres 2013: The CW

October 5, 2013
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Fall Premieres 2013: The CW

Antenna contributors review the new fall series from everyone's favorite pretend broadcast network.
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Stand By Your Woman: Batwoman’s Marriage in DC’s New 52

October 3, 2013
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Stand By Your Woman: Batwoman’s Marriage in DC’s New 52

The departure of J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman, the creative team behind Batwoman’s romance with Maggie Sawyer, results in scandal for DC and its fan community.
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Everybody’s Doing Molly? Dance Music Cultures and Drugs

October 2, 2013
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Everybody’s Doing Molly? Dance Music Cultures and Drugs

What happens when the forces of unchecked capitalism associated with the mainstreaming of dance music cultures prevent those cultures from protecting or regulating their own?
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Deserving Denouement

September 30, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Deserving Denouement

What do we want from a finale? Should it be a spectacular episode that serves as the dramatic peak of the series? Should it like any other episode of the series, only more so? Should it be surprising, shocking, or transformative? Or should it offer closure? For me, the main thing that I’m looking...
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29

September 29, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Fall Premieres 2013: CBS

September 26, 2013
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Fall Premieres 2013: CBS

Antenna contributors review the new fall series from America's #1 network in total viewers and—in a change—the key demographic.
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Fall Premieres 2013: NBC

September 25, 2013
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Fall Premieres 2013: NBC

Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the peacock network.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exiling Evil

September 23, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Exiling Evil

Dots are connected and characters suffer, setting up what is sure to be a heartwarming series finale.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exploding Emotion

September 16, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Exploding Emotion

Still recovering from this week's emotional devastation, but Jason Mittell works through the carnage with an extra-long post.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 2 – Sept 15

September 15, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Sept 2 – Sept 15

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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