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Australian “Free” TV

December 19, 2010
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Australian “Free” TV

Australia's digital channels pose a threat to the free-to-air channels, so how do the latter fight back?
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Late to the Party: Myst and Why You Can Never Go Home Again

December 1, 2010
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Late to the Party: <em>Myst</em> and Why You Can Never Go Home Again

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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Analog Video and Derisive Laughter

November 12, 2010
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Analog Video and Derisive Laughter

What's so funny about old videotape?
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality

October 27, 2010
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality

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: Their Ignorance, And Ours

October 21, 2010
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The ACTA Retreat:  Their Ignorance, And Ours

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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Bike Box

October 20, 2010
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Bike Box

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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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

October 15, 2010
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What Do You Think? The Chilean Mine Rescue

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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Business as Usual

September 8, 2010
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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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One Future of Network Television: A Literal Cottage Industry

July 7, 2010
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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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Live-Tweeting and the Academic Conference

June 18, 2010
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Live-Tweeting and the Academic Conference

Live-tweeting academic conferences is a relatively new phenomenon; as a result, conference participants and coordinators are still working out the kinks.
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SCMS + SXSW = ?

SCMS + SXSW = ?

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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The Place Race

February 26, 2010
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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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