Given the complex realities of home and the persistent simplification in its imagination during what many have dubbed the "Asian Century," Yiu Fai Chow, Sonja van Wichelen, and Jeroen de Kloet want to bracket home just as we hyphenate identity.
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Tags: Asian Century, Asianization, China, Citizenship, Home, Hong Kong, nationalism
Posted in Columns, International Journal of Cultural Studies | Comments Off on Bracketing Home: The Asian Century
The Hong Kong government has been saying that local people have a strong sense of belonging in this so-called “Asia’s World City.” Believe it or not? A promotional video featuring an old district in Hong Kong will tell you more.
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Tags: Asia, BrandHK, China, Chow Yun-Fat, cultural geography, cultural studies, everyday life, gentrification, globalization, Hong Kong, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Kowloon City, localism, Neoliberalism, urban renewal, urbanism
Posted in Columns, International Journal of Cultural Studies | Comments Off on “Faces of Hong Kong”: My City? My Home?
Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Bruce Springsteen, CBS, Charter, China, digital music, John Malone, Liberty Media, Netflix, PTC, SiriusXM, stock, Supreme Court, Time Warner Cable, WWE, WWE Network
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Dec 30 – Jan 12
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
Posted in Film, Industry, Technology, TV | Comments Off on Rethinking Media Distribution
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Activision Blizzard, China, Comcast, Dish, Disney, FCC, Grand Theft Auto V, Hopper, Jerry Bruckheimer, NBCUniversal, Rotten Tomatoes, Vivendi
Posted in Columns, Current Events, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 16 – Sept 29
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: CBS, China, CNN, Cord-cutting, EA, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Jeff Bezos, MPAA, NBC, NCAA, PlayStation, Sony, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, Washington Post
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Aug 5 – Aug 18
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Film, Film, Games, Games, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Music, Music, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, box office, children, China, cloud services, digital media, Disney, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-readers, gaming, Hollywood, internet, iTunes, music, Nintendo, Redbox, social media, streaming, television, UltraViolet, Wal-mart, Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, China, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, iTunes, Lionsgate, music, newspapers, Nintendo, piracy, Reddit, Sony, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, UltraViolet
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 2-15
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, China, distribution, e-books, Facebook, gaming, internet, music, Pandora, porn, Spotify, Sundance, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, Weinstein Co.
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Aug 19-Sept 1
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, Blockbuster, China, cloud services, digital distribution, digital music, distribution, DVDs, Facebook, gaming, Google, Hollywood, independent, iPad, Lionsgate, movie theaters, Netflix, Pinterest, porn, social gaming, social media, Spotify, streaming, television, UltraViolet, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 12-March 3
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, books, China, cloud services, comic books, digital media, Disney, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, magazines, Miramax, mobile media, MP3, music, Netflix, Pandora, piracy, radio, social media, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? August 14-27
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, BitTorrent, censorship, China, Comcast, digital music, Disney, Facebook, Google, independent film, internet, iPad, music, Netflix, oscars, streaming, Sundance, television, video games
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
American TV in Malawi, by way of China and South Africa. What are we to make of the cultural intermediaries, and what does this say about global media flow?
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Tags: China, Deadwood, DVDs, Malawi, marketing, piracy, South Africa
Posted in Global, Perspectives, TV | 1 Comment »
In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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Tags: China, Google, hackers, internet, policy
Posted in Current Events, Global, Internet | 2 Comments »
