Advancing Our Way to the Bottom? My kids' “now” and “just what I wanted” style of viewership encourages them to be tiny, impatient content bullies.
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Why is My Kid Watching That Lady Fondle Eggs?
Moving Beyond Screen Time
What's all this nonsense about "screen time"?
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Reflections on the “Tinker-verse”
Disney's “Tinker-verse” presents both compelling and troublesome aspects for a feminist media scholar-mom.
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Announcing a New Series: Antenna Kids
The charge for the series is simple and broad – to engage critically with media for children.
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Why Care About Radio Broadcast History in the On-Demand Digital Age?
Locating and making publically accessible radio broadcasts and their supporting archival documents mitigates the generalized understandings that radio broadcasting’s past was a “mass” media of little variety, low quality and limited engagement.
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Whose Media Is It, Anyway? Representation on the Caribbean International Network
How the network enacts its own hierarchies, and perpetuates the essentialization and commodification of peoples from the region.
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“Hope” for Net Neutrality?
President Obama’s statement calling on the FCC to implement the strongest possible net neutrality regulations is significant for many reasons, including what it signals about citizen engagement in communications regulation and the politics of media policy.
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The Cultural Significance of Booty Music
On the racial and gendered aspects of booty music, and how they remind us that the derriere is complex, ambivalent, and socially constructed.
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Drive-Ins, and the Stubborn Usefulness of Film Nostalgia
Interstellar (2014) made its well-known debut last weekend. In Chicago, the film (yes, we can still call it that) screened in its “intended” format of 70mm at the Navy Pier IMAX. Its appearance there and at other such venues was predictably celebrated by old school cinephiles as yet another defiant declaration of celluloid’s continuing...
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Downloading Serial (part 3)
How do forensic fandom practices work when applied to a serialized non-fiction mystery?
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Will 2014 Be the Year of the TV Latina?
On September 15 of this year, Rosie Perez took her seat as the first permanent Latina co-host of The View, ABC-TV’s long-running daytime chat show. The network confirmed its hiring of Perez (an Oscar-nominated actress also known for her work as an author, filmmaker and activist) only a week or so prior to the...
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Report from NYTVF Digital Day 2014
The New York TV Festival's "Digital Day" makes one wonder just how independent the digital TV landscape is.
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Bad Blood: “Taylor Swift” vs. Spotify
The removal of the artist's songs from the streaming service represents the latest development in an ongoing distribution struggle in the music industry.
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Season 4: Toph makes for a mean, sarcastic Yoda
It’s just this week that The Legend of Korra's setups have begun to pay off. In this post, I interrogate the character of Toph and her relationship to Korra.
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A National Icon Deficit: What the Ghomeshi Scandal Illustrates About the State of CBC Radio One
The sudden departure of Jian Ghomeshi from Q illustrates that the CBC's once innovative radio division needs to focus on developing new personalities and formats if it is to adapt to a rapidly evolving mediascape.
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Binging Isn’t Quite the Word
"Binging" and "marathoning" don't cut it -- we need a word in addition to binging to describe emerging viewing behaviors.
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