We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards
Mario is Mobile!: Or (Nintendo’s Platform Panic?)
Nintendo's move into mobile gaming signals a shift in strategy, but one carefully articulated in order to—for now—maintain the company's gaming philosophy.
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And the Grammy Nominees are [On Twitter]…
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The Recording Academy's decision to use Twitter to announce its nominees reinforces social media's role in shaping industrial practice surrounding award shows.
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Bad Blood: “Taylor Swift” vs. Spotify
The removal of the artist's songs from the streaming service represents the latest development in an ongoing distribution struggle in the music industry.
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Choose Your Own Narrative: The 2014 Emmy Awards
How this year's ceremony's lack of narrative created discursive space filled in by everything but the production itself.
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Category Agnostic: The 2014 Emmy Nominations
As cases of so-called "category fraud" increase, the Emmy Awards' arbitrary points of distinction risk becoming the story.
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Beyond the Nominations: The Emmys and Representation
While we typically judge Emmy diversity through the nominees, campaigns and ballots offer other spaces to explore politics of representation.
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Why Kickstarter?: Corner Gas and Crowdfunding as Promotion
When fans are asked to crowdfund the marketing of a film that will exist without their support, the meanings of Kickstarter shift considerably.
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Pre-Prime: HBO’s Off-Channel Revenue Legacy
How HBO's deal with Amazon Prime reflects its history of embracing new forms of distribution in the interest of connecting with and monetizing audiences unable or unwilling to subscribe to the channel.
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Bro-Friendly Fandom: The Blue Mountain State Kickstarter
By leveraging Kickstarter as a safe space for masculinized fandom, Blue Mountain State has the potential to live on despite lacking its progenitor's coverage, prestige, and formalized fan engagement.
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Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI
Twitter serves not only as a platform for high-profile showrunners, but also a space where more nuanced television authorship is negotiated by writer-producers.
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The Personal Stakes of Social Media: Showrunners [Off] Twitter V
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When a showrunner chooses to remove themselves from Twitter, they are removing themselves from not only professional opportunity but also a space for self-expression.
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Self-Important Spectacle: The 2013 Emmy Awards
From the moment the ceremony began, it was clear that this was an evening set to celebrate television in the most misguided of ways.
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Disney Infinity: Behind the P(l)aywall [Part Three]
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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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Disney Infinity: A Promotional Platform [Part Two]
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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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