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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Mediating the Past: Sacred History and Sacrilegious Television Comedy
For viewers too young to remember, moments of common historical importance are increasingly being inflected with the flippant attitude of sick humor.
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Dear Search Committees,
It’s almost job season again, which means that it’s almost advice season again. Though grad students and job seekers are inundated with advice, search committees need advice too.
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The Internet, Baseball Analysis, and the Persistence of Dogma
A brief discussion and interview with Baseball Prospectus podcaster Kevin Goldstein on the current state of baseball analysis.
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Mediating the Past: Radiolab Revisits the Crossroads
The popular WNYC public radio program Radiolab weaves together interviews, historical records, artifacts, and music in the episode "Crossroads," which explores the cultural history surrounding blues musician Robert Johnson.
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Report From Console-ing Passions 2012
As a first-time Console-ing Passions Conference attendee, I learned that CP is more than a conference—it is a revival.
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Mediating the Past: History and Ancestry in NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
Some of the most compelling episodes of NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? are those where relatively little information about a celebrity’s ancestors can be found.
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Feminist Media Studies: Previewing Console-ing Passions 2012
As befits Console-ing Passions' twentieth anniversary, we are looking forward to using next week's gathering to take a pulse on the field of feminist studies.
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The 2012 BET Awards as [Black] Family Reunion
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Its the pairing of disrepute with respectability that makes the BET Awards akin to a Black Family reunion.
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor
Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
While productions like Sport in America champion sport's cultural import, they tend to obscure the conditions that facilitate and restrict sport's apparent capacity to define us.
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Mediating the Past: The Future of Media History
We not only need to engage with historiographical ideologies and methods in times of shifting temporality and materiality; we need to protect physical media.
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It’s the Euros, stupid!
A preview of the European Football Championship quarterfinal between Greece and Germany.
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On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 3]
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In the final installment of this series on podcaster Bob Frantz and his venture Boneyard Industries, the frustration that comes with advertising and getting local listeners on board is explored.
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