David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen
What Are You Missing? April 3-16
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Egregious Product Placement? New Regulations in the UK
The UK now allows product placement in television programming, and their regulations on those placements perpetuate a false dichotomy regarding the logics and goals of product integration.
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Great Barbeque, Gigabits, and Google
After sifting though around 1,100 applications and high profile pleas, Google recently picked a site for its 1 Gbps fiber network. And according to Google, Kansas City Kansas beats. . . well, everywhere. Why KCK? And what does this mean for the rest of us?
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The Mad-ness of Precarious Programming?
It is no longer impossible to imagine that AMC might move on, leaving its signature show behind.
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April Fools’ Day and the Ghosts of Media Past
On April 1, 2011, several websites joked around with media history.
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What Are You Missing? Mar 20-April 2
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?
In what ways does the medium and its exploration connect with the traditional foci of humanistic study: life, death, friendship, love, work, play, language, learning, history, and so on?
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races
What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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So It’s Come to This: An Antenna Clips Show
It’s Spring Break for us here, hence a slowdown in publishing. But just like any bad sitcom, there’s always the clip show, so we thought we’d remind you of what’s been published here this year.
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What Are You Missing? March 6 – 19
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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On (Not) Hosting the Session that Killed the Term “Acafan”
(Why) Do we need the term acafandom?
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The Unicorn That Roared
I know that even as the bad job market is a haunting reality for most grad students, it's also a gamble every one is clearly willing to take, deep down surely believing that they will beat the odds. After all, everyone whom they encounter and interact with has done so, right?
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Report from SCMS: Saturday, Sunday, and Beyond
While there have been a number of diverse responses to this year’s SCMS, a substantial portion of the discussion boils down to this central question: why do we attend academic conferences?
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Report from SCMS: Friday
Two days in and SCMS 2011 has already proved an amazing experience.
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Report From SCMS: Thursday
The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in New Orleans this week. First up: a Thursday report from Christine Becker, focusing primarily on the SCMS website workshop.
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