Posts Tagged ‘ digital media ’

What Are You Missing? November 7-20

November 21, 2010
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What Are You Missing? November 7-20

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Converse Rubber Tracks: What’s a Shoe Company Doing With a Recording Studio?

October 22, 2010
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Converse Rubber Tracks: What’s a Shoe Company Doing With a Recording Studio?

Are lifestyle brands the new record labels? A new recording studio owned by Converse is offering musicians the opportunity to record their music for free, further reducing the need for artists to work with traditional record labels. There are, of course, some strings attached.
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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 Are You Missing? Sept 12-25

September 26, 2010
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What Are You Missing? Sept 12-25

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? August 15-28

August 29, 2010
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What Are You Missing? August 15-28

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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

June 7, 2010
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Misreading pleasure: from pro-social soaps to ICT4D

The information and communication technologies for development (ITC4D) initiative can and should be more than developmentalism. How can we think more broadly about the pleasures of engaging with emerging media?
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Report from Console-ing Passions 2010

April 25, 2010
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Report from Console-ing Passions 2010

At Console-ing Passions, you can expect scholarship on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality (as they relate to media) in every panel—and it’s great to mingle with so many brilliant feminist scholars!
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For the Love of Glee

April 15, 2010
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For the Love of <em>Glee</em>

Glee has garnered ardent fans, or Gleeks, around the world. Just as notable, it appears to have been embraced as particularly American. What is it about the series that has inspired this phenomenon?
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What Are You Missing? February 14-28

February 28, 2010
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What Are You Missing? February 14-28

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Watching Twitter on TV

February 25, 2010
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Watching Twitter on TV

The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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What Google’s Experimental Fiber Network Means for Broadband

February 16, 2010
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What Google’s Experimental Fiber Network Means for Broadband

Despite all the other Buzz around Google lately, its other announcement last week is the real big deal: Google's plan to build an experimental 1 Gbps, fiber-to-the-home broadband network will have a big impact on net neutrality and broadband stimulus policies.
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel

February 15, 2010
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel

What's in a name? Hasbro and Discovery begin branding efforts for their new joint venture cable network debuting later this year.
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Unfriended!

November 18, 2009
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Unfriended!

New Oxford American Dictionary, it's over. No more status updates, no more shared photos - you're unfriended.
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Keeping an eye on “Copyright Watch”

November 16, 2009
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The beta version of Copyright Watch was launched recently. The site gives users an overview of national copyright law in various countries across the globe. Each entry on Copyright Watch gives a brief overview of the geographic location and borders of the country, whether the country is a member of supranational organizations like the...
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