With NBC's Community and ABC's Cougar Town on hiatus, their respective showrunners' Twitter accounts become key outlets for implicitly or explicitly encouraging fan involvement and/or activism.
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Columns
Promoting an Uncertain Future: Showrunners (on Hiatus) on Twitter IV
Lost and Found Doctor Who: Time-Travelling TV?
The tantalising return of two episodes of early Doctor Who deserves celebration. But perhaps the tempting notion of two cultures or past/present eras of TV deserves a measure of critique.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 27-Dec 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Ready to Chat?
To minimize the impact of the distance between us when we left graduate school, we committed to a weekly one-hour appointment. Though our weekly chats began as a way to maintain our friendship, they quickly became a way for us to continue to reap the benefits of our supportive work relationship and to navigate...
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Late to the Party: Band of Brothers
We resurrect our Late to the Party column with some reflections on HBO's 'Band of Brothers'.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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NCA in NOLA: A tale of Frenchman Street and Feminism
This years National Communication Association came with a side of jazz and jambalaya. Held in New Orleans, two hotels on canal street were overtaken with communication scholars from all over the country.
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Crowds, Words, and the Futures of Entertainment Conference
At FoE no one group is set up as knowing what’s going on, the other(s) being left simply to write notes. And thus it’s an interesting, if sometimes awkward exercise in talking across paradigms, goals, and vocabulary.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 30-Nov 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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How to be an Independent Scholar
Being an independent scholar means that research and academic writing must be redefined as pleasure: I research instead of watching TV or reading a book; I write instead of meeting with friends or going shopping; I edit and do professional activities at the cost of my family time.
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Moving
Academic life requires that one be able to move on command. But how does one do that?
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Dual Academic Couples and Long Distance Living
Commuting is no way to work. It’s also no way to live. And yet I’m surprised by how many of us there are. Probably every professor knows at least one couple in a similar situation.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 9-22
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Report From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference
Ben Aslinger, Sean Duncan, and Liz Ellcessor provide some thoughts on IR12, the 12th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was held in Seattle, October 10-13.
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Report from the UW-Madison Television Comedy Conference
A summary of events and discussions that took place during the UW-Madison Television Comedy Conference.
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