Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: AMC, Charter, Comcast, Dish, FCC, net neutrality, NFL, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Viacom
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Recipient of the 2014 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award Eric Hoyt discusses his personal connection with Friedberg, her contributions, and her legacy.
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Tags: anne friedberg, close up, Lantern, media history, Media History Digital Library, SCMS
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Despite the way flow helped coalesce our field, there's not really an overwhelming body of flow work, especially with regard to the pleasure people derive from it.
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Tags: Flow, kids media, queerness, Raymond Williams
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In this final post in our series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Jennifer Hyland Wang analyzes how responses to the War of the Worlds broadcast exposed much of the gender and class discourses underpinning the American Broadcasting system.
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Tags: #WOTW75, FCC, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, radio studies, War of the Worlds
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A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
The From Mercury to Mars series continues today with a new post from Murray Pomerance about Orson Welles' voice.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Citizen Kane, F for Fake, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Neil Verma, Orson Welles, performance, radio studies, sound studies, voice, War of the Worlds
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Josh Shepperd's "On (the) Wisconsin Discourses" series continues with a focus on the contributions of Julie D'Acci to the concepts of emergence and temporality
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Tags: Birmingham School, Cagney and Lacey, Discourse, emergence, gender, industry studies, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, temporality
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In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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Tags: apps, beautiful revolution, design, Google, information aesthetics, internet, Larry Page, media aesthetics, mobile, PageRank, search engines, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Susan Sontag, touch, ubicomp, UX, web design
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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
The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues on into the new year with a post on Sounding Out! from A. Brad Schwartz about the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories on Orson Welles' radio work.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Baker Street, BBC, CBS, First Person Singular, From Mercury to Mars, John Gielgud, Mercury Theatre on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, Radio Drama, Ralph Richardson, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Final Problem, The Shadow, Too Much Johnson, War of the Worlds, William Gillette
Posted in Columns, From Mercury to Mars | Comments Off on From Mercury to Mars: The Shadow of the Great Detective: Orson Welles and Sherlock Holmes on the Air
As 2013 comes to a close, we here at Antenna are taking the time to reflect on the media and media stories of this year that we didn't get to spend quite enough time thinking and talking about.
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