Technology

I demand a moratorium on breathless distribution announcements from cable companies until they upgrade the user interface. We all know the technology exists.
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Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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This piece begins a series reflecting on the trials and tribulations of digital pedagogy.
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20th Century Fox is mounting an Oscar campaign for The Planet of the Apes' Andy Serkis. Tama Leaver examines the potential implications of this sort of virtual acting or 'synthespian' (synthetic thespian) performance for our understanding of what it means to act or perform.
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As culture becomes increasingly digitized, arguments for the “dematerialization” of media are becoming commonplace. However, media have always been, and remain, embedded in and structured by material objects, networks, and practices that delimit their uses and meanings.
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Among the many threads entwined in this production are its virtually fetishistic engagement with and display of early 20th century material culture, including forms of media.
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A: Failure
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Australia's digital channels pose a threat to the free-to-air channels, so how do the latter fight back?
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Welcome to our new feature, Late to the Party. Each week, our contributors will consume and report on a canonical or otherwise significant piece of media that they have missed until now. Next up: Kyra Glass von der Osten on Myst.
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What's so funny about old videotape?
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Despite its reputation as a wonky and bewildering issue, net neutrality actually boils down to a pretty simple principle of openness and nondiscrimination. It’s important to point out, then, that a lot of those who are talking about “net neutrality” these days aren’t actually talking about this.
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The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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Over the summer, we launched a location-aware iPhone app we called Bike Box. The goal in developing this project was to use smartphone technology to enhance rather than replace a user’s experience of physical space.
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The rescue of a group of Chilean miners this week has become a media phenomenon. We want your opinion on it all.
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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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