Archive for August, 2013

Disney's latest venture aims to earn much of its value through creativity, but you'll have to play—and pay—for it.
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Thinking about Infinity as a replacement for licensed tie-ins—as opposed to the creative revolution they claim—may still be overestimating Disney’s plans.
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Disney Interactive's big gaming industry play comes with rhetoric of revolution, and a business model built on the success of other gaming platforms.
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This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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Jennifer Lynn Jones explores dieting episodes in the classic family sitcom, The Goldbergs.
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All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Editorial Board of The Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline for its forthcoming "On Sound (New Directions in Sound Studies)" issue to September 1. In particular, VLT seeks sound-related research that addresses issues and topics in radio, television, video games, digital/new media, and other non-film media. Read on for the CFP.
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In Antenna's first post in the From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years collaborative series with Sounding Out!, Eleanor Patterson explores how it is that we are still listening to the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 75 years later, and in what ways its discursive and material...
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This week, Lantern, a search and visualization platform for the Media History Digital Library, reached its first wide public.
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LeakyCon's value lies in its participants’ willingness to forgo boundaries and to explore what new connections happen as a result of creative mergers and blendings.
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Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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Part six of a seven-part series: LeakyCon’s space alters norms of masculine performance, creating a set of genderqueer performance aesthetics tailored to its fangirl attendees.
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Antenna is pleased to announce the launch of a 12-part, 6-month long series entitled From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years. A partnership between Antenna and Sounding Out!, the series is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast this October by offering a range of critical...
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Extracting clips from DVDs is and will continue to be a crucial skill for media educators and researchers even as cloud and streaming services threaten DVDs; here's how to do it.
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