While other countries are considering changes to adapt their media laws for convergence, Australia has been a world leader in commissioning major studies that address these challenges head on.
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Archive for May, 2012
Convergent Media Policy: The Australian Case
On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 1]
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Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Mom Enough?: The Return of the Absentee Mother as Threat
There is nothing necessarily new about a character's surprising return, but the particular attention to the absent mother taps into a current and contentious discourse of motherhood: attachment parenting.
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What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Oops, I Swiped My Book: Nostalgia and Finitude in Digital Media
Can a book really tell us about our changing attitudes towards knowledge? Can a page-flip user interface really shed light on ways of being in the world? The answers to these questions are not governed by destiny, but by your emergent responses.
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24 Hours in A&E: Public Service and the Fixed-Camera Documentary
The series deploys both technological innovation and audience-pleasing storytelling, whilst in the process educating the audience about emergency medicine and affirming the value of Britain’s NHS.
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The GSU Copyright Case: Lessons Learned [Part Two]
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Building on Monday's post, a consideration of individual educators and our personal stakes in the Georgia State copyright decision.
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Grimm and the Monstrous Feminine
Dead women are standard set dressing on most crime dramas, but the more I watched the more I realized the women in Grimm aren’t usually homicide victims – they’re monsters.
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The GSU Copyright Case: Lessons Learned [Part One]
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While the limited “wins” for the plaintiff have likely made future cases of this type more trouble than they are worth, the wider implications of the case are more concerning.
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Upfronts 2012: An A-Z of What’s New
Who gets their own show, and what can we expect, for the 2012-2013 season?
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Upfronts 2012: “Save our Show (On the Industry’s Margins)”
With no prominent "Save our Show" campaign following this year's cancellations, we should turn our attention to why we’re not talking about a big cancellation in a year where a number of highly-rated shows got canceled.
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The Pitch: Creativity in Advertising
AMC's The Pitch documents the legacy of the Creative Revolution by showing proponents of creativity in advertising insisting on the value of artfulness over scientism.
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What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Creating a Spark: Official and Fan-Produced Transmedia for The Hunger Games
With the widespread use of Twitter and Tumblr, official and fan-produced transmedia increasingly share the same media spaces.
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The Dark Knight Rises: Fandom and the Folk Hero
Batman cannot survive as a single, fixed figure. Batman is a virus, a folk hero, an icon, an infection. He belongs to the people. He belongs to us.
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