In the first post in our "Honoring Hilmes" series, Bill Kirkpatrick argues that the quality of Michele Hilmes’ scholarship is undisputed, yet the example of her great work alone is not why Radio Studies is now thriving. It is also because Hilmes has done the (arguably much harder) work of field-building.
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Tags: Disciplinarity, Field-building, historiography, media history, media studies, Michele Hilmes, radio, radio studies, sound studies
Posted in Columns, Honoring Hilmes | 1 Comment »
Bill Kirkpatrick continues our week-long series of reports from the SCMS 2015 conference. He argues that radio studies within SCMS is coming into its own, and the Society is better for it.
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Tags: academic conference, media studies, radio, radio studies, SCMS Radio Studies Scholarly Interest Group, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Posted in Columns, Report From... | Comments Off on Radio Studies at SCMS: From Justification to Exploration
Some thoughts on the current state of qualitative radio scholarship, plus a line-up of radio studies related papers, panels, and events at this year's SCMS conference.
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Tags: radio studies, SCMS
Posted in Academia, Columns, On Radio, Perspectives, Radio | 2 Comments »
It’s the kind of delicious irony that we broadcast historians relish: in order to move boldly into the future and expand on the cutting edge of communications technology, Cinema Journal has started a radio show. Aca-Media (officially: “Cinema Journal Presents Aca-Media”) is a new monthly podcast covering current media studies scholarship, issues in the...
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Tags: Aca-Media, Aca-Sphere, academia, Cinema Journal, media studies, professional development, Scholarly Publishing
Posted in Academia, Perspectives | 5 Comments »
Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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Tags: Arbitron, Clear Channel, College radio, FCC, iHeartRadio, industry, Media conglomeration, Media Convergence, radio, SiriusXM, technology
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 4 Comments »
With a title like that, it was bound to either be more dirty or less dirty than I expected.
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Tags: 1980s cinema, class, music in film, working-class masculinity
Posted in Columns, Late to the Party | 1 Comment »
The ACTA retreat is indicative of a larger crisis in how media policy works today. Specifically: we have no idea how media policy works today.
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Tags: acta, copyright, intellectual property, policy, policy sphere, policymaking
Posted in Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
At the TWiT Cottage and around the web, a new kind of network television is taking hold.
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Tags: CNET, network television, simulcasting, TechCrunch, TWiT
Posted in Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Radio, Technology, TV | 1 Comment »
Ten years after John Fiske's retirement from academia, three generations of colleagues and students assess his legacy and ongoing relevance
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Tags: active audiences, conference report, Fiske Matters, Henry Jenkins, John Fiske, Madison
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What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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Tags: community broadband, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, GoogleFiber, internet, Ivan Seidenberg, Julius Genachowski, media policy, National Broadband Plan, YouTube
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Politics | 4 Comments »