For today's television showrunner, Twitter is simultaneously rife with potential and littered with pitfalls.
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Tweets of Anarchy: Showrunners on Twitter
Business as Usual
It’s worthwhile thinking about the Blackberry investigations and Google/Verizon plan for the future of net neutrality in connection with each another because they tell us a lot about trends in information policy and practice.
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Geek Hierarchies, Boundary Policing, and the Good Fan/Bad Fan Dichotomy
We may be several decades removed from the emotional upheavals of the culture debates, but popular studies remains a readily mocked area in mainstream media, especially as universities are often asked to produce efficient and effectual employees rather than well rounded individuals.
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Army Wives, Safe Soldiers, and Online Smokescreens
As everyone else was drooling over the final episodes of LOST, I fully admit that I was focusing on my weekly fix of Lifetime’s Army Wives. Despite its lack of cultural cachet, to me the show continues to illustrate an interesting tension between niche marketing, media convergence, and politically charged topicality.
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One Future of Network Television: A Literal Cottage Industry
At the TWiT Cottage and around the web, a new kind of network television is taking hold.
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Refreshing Democracy?
Pepsi appears to be redefining the relationship between consumerism and (corporate) citizenship together with the emerging Pepsi generation
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When Sports Talk Radio Converges: The Relevance of Callers’ Hometowns
The town names of callers allow listeners to construct an imagined regional map, an extended network of communication of which they are one point in their material environment that they comprehend through the car window
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For Worse and For Better: My Bill Simmons Weekend
Bill Simmons' organization of a series of live fan chants during the Celtics game underscores his unique power as an internet star to turn commentary into real life action.
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Greetings from National Broadband Plan, Ohio!
What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?
Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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Getting Beyond the Thunderdome: David Brooks’ Fantastical “Riders on the Storm”
Are people more open to new ideas when they get their daily news through the Internet or do they tend to use today's historically unparalleled access to support what they already think?
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Derivative By Any Other Name; or, A Cultural Approach to Fan Fiction Genre Theory
For the most part, fan fiction is like porn—we know it when we see it. And yet when asked to delineate its boundaries, the genre is surprisingly hard to categorize.
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My Deaf Family, My New Web Series?
Oscar-winning deaf actress Marlee Matlin is producing a new reality show, My Deaf Family. It follows the Firl family - father Leslie and mother Bridgetta are both deaf, and they have four children, two of whom are hearing and two of whom are deaf
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Sports Guy Bill Simmons: Journalism’s Future?
Is ESPN.com's Bill Simmons, also known as Sports Guy, the future of journalism?
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The Place Race
Location is the frontier du jour. The explosion of geolocation apps and the eagerness of people to use them, has prompted services like Twitter to get into the game. People want to know where you are and maybe already do. Welcome to the place race
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