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Creating is Collecting

May 2, 2013
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Creating is Collecting

The culture of contemporary baseball card collecting is an excellent example of how creativity can serve as a satisfying replacement for traditional economic incentives.
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Aereo and “Free” Broadcasting

April 18, 2013
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Aereo and “Free” Broadcasting

Considering the larger historical context of the broadcasters' objections to Aereo, how might this case reflect how broadcasters are revising their commitment to "free" television?
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What is the Media & Cultural Studies of the MOOC?

March 11, 2013
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What is the Media & Cultural Studies of the MOOC?

Amid the flurry of dialogue accumulating discursive authority as “The Year of the MOOC,” what is the contribution of the media and cultural studies scholar?
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Booth Babe Backlash

January 17, 2013
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Booth Babe Backlash

A year of misogyny in geek culture resurrected the booth babe debate that has contributed to a backlash against female fandom.
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Ads as Content: Ford’s “Escape My Life” Series

January 10, 2013
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Ads as Content: Ford’s “Escape My Life” Series

As audiences migrate away from live TV viewing and advertisers become increasingly concerned about how to get their messages out, series like "Escape My Life," which invite viewers to engage more directly and deeply with a brand (while being entertained!), might just be the wave of the future.
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Dish TV’s Auto Hop: Broadcast Networks Fight Back

June 6, 2012
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Dish TV’s Auto Hop: Broadcast Networks Fight Back

The broadcast networks respond to the introduction of Dish TV's new DVR, the Hopper, with outrage and litigation.
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M2AF: Message Received

June 1, 2012
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What I find surprising about gaming M2AFs is how often they quickly turn intimate, even if the only connection between sender and receivers is an ad hoc one established to gain an achievement. It is not uncommon to get a highly personal message of one kind or another.
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To XFinity and Beyond… The Missing Smart Living Room TV Interface

March 10, 2012
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To XFinity and Beyond… The Missing Smart Living Room TV Interface

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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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud

January 31, 2012
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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud

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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The Google+ Assignment

January 26, 2012
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The Google+ Assignment

This piece begins a series reflecting on the trials and tribulations of digital pedagogy.
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An Oscar for Andy?

November 16, 2011
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An Oscar for Andy?

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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The Materiality of Media

September 8, 2011
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The Materiality of Media

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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Boardwalk Empire’s Aged Media Conundrum

January 6, 2011
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Boardwalk Empire’s Aged Media Conundrum

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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