True to form, this year’s Tony Awards laid bare its undying need to appear youthful, popular, and hip, all the while marginalizing the spirit of American theatre and those who participate in it. The broadcast looked less like a celebration of New York theatre and more like the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys rolled into...
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Upon being released after his home station embraced a format change, radio personality Adam Carolla responded by creating a "network" of podcasts he could use to sell advertisers listeners in aggregate. Bob Frantz quickly looked to this strategy as a way to continue an over-the-mic career after the death of a ten-year radio career...
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What is a “television festival”? What might such an event look like? The answers emerged at the ATX Television Festival, held in downtown Austin, TX from June 1st to 3rd.
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Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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While this media surge contributed to this season’s premiere becoming Mad Men’s highest rated episode ever, ratings are not really the point. Mad Men sustains AMC's brand, providing a specific and prestigious visibility that extends beyond those who actually watch. Mad Men also offers viewers the opportunity to feel simultaneously nostalgic for and superior...
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Ira Glass' iconic voice seems to be everywhere, and offers insight into contemporary radio culture and stardom.
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Using Google+ for student assignments in a TV genre class would, ideally, link learning with social technologies students are already using, and spur students to consume social media more critically. As with all experiments there was some success and some failure.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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“One Shining Moment’s” recent revisions suggest that the mythic meaning the highlight attaches to the men's tournament is contingent upon the stability of the gendered television viewing experience it constructs.
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It isn’t difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist gamers. The reputation of misogyny in video game culture, lack of women and racial minorities in the industry, the perpetuation of player stereotypes in games marketing and the popular press, and the dearth of non-white, female, or queer characters in games has provided plenty...
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