For many academics, Comic-Con provides a significant opportunity to study media audiences, as its diverse programming attracts an array of fandoms and subcultures. But it is the massive marketing presence of the media industries (usually coded in trade and popular discourses as “Hollywood”) that makes Comic-Con a unique space in which to examine...
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Tags: Comic-Con, marketing, promotions
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Netflix's nominations have been signaled as historical for online television, but they were earned through efforts to erase that distinction.
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Tags: 2013, Arrested Development, Emmys, House of Cards, Netflix, Nominations, Online Television, TV, Webseries
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy, FOX, Hulu, Jay-Z, Legendary, MPAA, News Corp., Penguin, Random House, RIAA, rupert murdoch, The Butler, The Weinstein Company, Warner Bros., Xbox, Zynga
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Days after the channel debuted a documentary series focused on gender equality, their Wimbledon coverage raises questions about their own commitment to equality in broadcasting.
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Tags: broadcasting, Bryan Brothers, ESPN, Gender Equality, Nine for IX, sports, Tennis, Venus Vs., Wimbledon
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As part of an ongoing partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Antenna and SCMS's Cinema Journal, Stefania Marghitu gives a first-hand report straight from the 21st anniversary of Console-ing Passions at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.
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Tags: Cinema Journal, Console-ing Passions, Console-ing Passions 2013, Console-ing Passions at 21, De Montfort University
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: caa, Disney, Dreamworks, e3, Greece, interns, kanye west, Licensing, Microsoft, Netflix, PlayStation, Sony, wme, Xbox
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, digital media, Game of Thrones, Hollywood, Hulu, internet, Netflix, television
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From prix winners to distribution deals, here are 10 Cannes-related items you may have missed over the past two weeks.
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Tags: Cannes, distribution, film festivals, international film market
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The question I’m often asked by people afraid of the ephemerality of broadcast is: How do I record television? And how do I save what I’ve recorded for posterity? Here are my practical steps with relevant hardware suggestions.
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Tags: archive, archives, DVR, how to, teach hacks, television recording, TV tuner
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Star Trek, Strongbox, Tumblr, Xbox, Xbox One, Yahoo, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Film, Film, Games, Games, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Music, Music, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Arrested Development, Barco's Auro 11.1, China FIlm Group, CNN, Disney, Django Unchained, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, Elysium, Fox News, iTunes, MSNBC, NBC, Netflix, Oriental DreamWorks, Reddit, Roku AppleTV, Sony, Spotify, The Onion, Twitter
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The Generation(s) of Television Studies symposium, held at the University of Georgia, made visible just how influential Horace Newcomb has been to the field.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Amazon, Cinedigm, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, Fullscreen, Goodreads, HBO, Hulu, Kickstarter, News Corp., Playboy
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
