Klout attempts to quantify the ephemeral, subjective concept of online influence through social media analytics. What does such a number mean for how we consider self-presentation online?
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Archive for March, 2014
#SCMS14: Klout & The ‘Influence’ Economy
Simple Machine & Micro-Wave: Building a Grassroots Film Community
How to transform the potential of online communities like Simple Machine into local, public support for independent filmmaking?
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Negotiations and Regressions of Cultural Politics in Disney’s Frozen
The politics of Disney's Frozen are indicative of symptomatic shifts within an otherwise largely entrenched ideological core.
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True Detective’s True Detectives
What I am interested here is the audience of forensic textual foragers that, like the true detectives themselves, followed the scattered bread crumbs that led towards, not the yellow brick road, but the yellow king and the city of Carcosa.
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Exploring True/False
Each winter, as February becomes March, Columbia, Missouri transforms itself into a grand stage for the True/False film fest, a four-day international nonfiction film festival.
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Following the Instructions
Continuing to think about LEGO, the idea of “creativity,” and the unequal extension of that idea to different consumer groups.
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The Art of Life: Cinema Verité and Melodrama Rendez-Vous in Robert Greene’s Actress
Now in its eleventh year, Columbia, Missouri’s True/False Film Festival is rapidly becoming a major stop on the North American festival circuit.
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Celebrating 25 years of Global Hypertext: World Wide Web!#♡@
While Internet denizens celebrate the web’s “official” 25th anniversary today, we might pause to recognize how confusing and uncertain “inventions” and “births” sometimes are.
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Why Co-Produce? Elementary, Holmes.
What I mean by “transnational television co-production,” the tensions that shape it, and why I think it’s worth studying.
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Case Studies in Technological Change
To paraphrase Robert Allen and Douglas Gomery in Film History: Theory and Practice, media depends on machines. Technology contextualizes industrial and stylistic change, reveals and obscures sites of cultural negotiation and meaning, and enables new modes of media production, circulation, and reception. The significance of technology to media studies has only become more acute...
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The Aesthetic Turn: Toward a Television Aesthetic (Again)
How do we teach television aesthetics, and what does it mean to analyze or evaluate television aesthetics?
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Oscars 2014: It’s Time
The 2014 Oscar theme may have been “Heroes in Hollywood,” but the narrative that formed was the film industry’s contestable progress and diversity.
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