In the third post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses how she manages audio-visual sources for her extensive research project on the history of U.S. daytime television soap opera.
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Tags: academic research, Another World, archival preservation, Dark Shadows, digital tools, fandom, Handbrake, historiography, iSkysoft iTube Studio, media history, Passions, Port Charles, RetroTV, Ryan's Hope, Sci-Fi, soap opera, SOAPnet, VHS
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Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Tags: #RPTF, American Pie, archival preservation, College radio, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Don McLean, FCC, media history, NPR, popular music, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, sound recording history, university archives, University of Maryland, WMUC, Woodstock
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Disney's hesitation to move forward with TRON 3 is symptomatic of the company's inability to find an appropriate strategy to bridge disparate pieces under one unified brand.
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Tags: Disney, Star Wars, Tron, Walt Disney Company
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Sam Ward looks under the hood of the EU’s “digital single market” initiative and finds wrenches in the machinery—geo-blocking, national-cultural specificity and more.
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Tags: digital distribution, Digital Single Market, European Union, iPlayer, Netflix, Online Television, streaming television, television, transnational
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The Hong Kong government has been saying that local people have a strong sense of belonging in this so-called “Asia’s World City.” Believe it or not? A promotional video featuring an old district in Hong Kong will tell you more.
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Tags: Asia, BrandHK, China, Chow Yun-Fat, cultural geography, cultural studies, everyday life, gentrification, globalization, Hong Kong, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Kowloon City, localism, Neoliberalism, urban renewal, urbanism
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In the second post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses her process for converting historical research materials into chapter outlines using Scrivener.
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Tags: data management, DEVONthink, historiography, media history, methodology, research, Scapple, Scrivener, software, word processing
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Li Cornfeld considers the technofuturism and Cold War nostalgia in "Tomorrowland," in light of the Walt Disney Company’s own corporate departure from space age optimism.
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Tags: 1964 World's Fair, Brad Bird, cold war, Damon Lindelof, Disney, Disneyland, EPCOT, Magic Kingdom, NASA, nostalgia, retro-futurism, technofuturism, Tomorrowland, Walt Disney
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