Leora Hadas tracks creative frictions as Israeli TV dramatists see their work exported, adapted and as The Affair’s Hagai Levi puts it, taking a permanent detour from work that “started out as art.”
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Tags: adaptation, authorship, Dig, Fauda, formats, Hagai Levi, HBO, Homeland, In Treatment, Israel, Keshet Broadcasting, Rising Star, Showrunner, Showtime, television, The Affair, transnational, transnational media
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D. Elizabeth Cohen discusses how teaching with media from YouTube can be a force for literacy and internationalization in South Korea.
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Tags: bilingualism, creative cluster, creative economy, creative industries, cultural studies, Digital Media City, DMC, globalization, ICT, IJCS, information and communication technology, International Journal of Cultural Studies, language, South Korea, urban geography, YouTube
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The country radio controversy known as "#SaladGate" is a classic case of disruption caused by digital and social media and greater media literacy.
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Tags: #SaladGate, Country Aircheck Weekly, Country Music, gender, Keith Hill, Martina McBride, media industries, media literacy, Miranda Lambert, popular music, radio, radio programming, Radio Stuff Podcast, sexism, social media, Twitter
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 2 Comments »
As part of a forthcoming history of the radio feature Michele Hilmes shares her discovery of the supposedly lost Langston Hughes radio play, "The Man Who Went to War."
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Tags: Alan Lomax, ballad opera, BBC, D.G. Bridson, Langston Hughes, Library of Congress, media history, media studies, Michel Foucault, Network Nations, Norman Corwin, Paul Robeson, radio, Radio Feature, Radio Preservation Task Force, soundwork, The Man Who Went to War, Transatlantic Call, World War II
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Looking beyond the content of Michele Hilmes’s work to its structure and form, Shawn VanCour discusses the larger goals and techniques of Hilmesian historiography.
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Tags: consumer culture, counterpublics, Discourse, feminism, historical closeup, historiography, ideology, Jacques Derrida, media history, Michel Foucault, Michele Hilmes, public sphere, radio, radio voices, Roland Marchand, Siegfried Kracauer, soap opera, spectrology
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In the third post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses how she manages audio-visual sources for her extensive research project on the history of U.S. daytime television soap opera.
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Tags: academic research, Another World, archival preservation, Dark Shadows, digital tools, fandom, Handbrake, historiography, iSkysoft iTube Studio, media history, Passions, Port Charles, RetroTV, Ryan's Hope, Sci-Fi, soap opera, SOAPnet, VHS
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Laura Schnitker writes about the importance of saving college radio archives, as college stations have the built-in resources to both save their materials and provide public access to them.
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Tags: #RPTF, American Pie, archival preservation, College radio, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Don McLean, FCC, media history, NPR, popular music, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, sound recording history, university archives, University of Maryland, WMUC, Woodstock
Posted in Columns, Radio Preservation Task Force | 1 Comment »
Sam Ward looks under the hood of the EU’s “digital single market” initiative and finds wrenches in the machinery—geo-blocking, national-cultural specificity and more.
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Tags: digital distribution, Digital Single Market, European Union, iPlayer, Netflix, Online Television, streaming television, television, transnational
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Streaming Across Borders: The Digital Single Market, Web-Based Television and the “Global” Viewer
The Hong Kong government has been saying that local people have a strong sense of belonging in this so-called “Asia’s World City.” Believe it or not? A promotional video featuring an old district in Hong Kong will tell you more.
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Tags: Asia, BrandHK, China, Chow Yun-Fat, cultural geography, cultural studies, everyday life, gentrification, globalization, Hong Kong, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Kowloon City, localism, Neoliberalism, urban renewal, urbanism
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In the second post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses her process for converting historical research materials into chapter outlines using Scrivener.
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Tags: data management, DEVONthink, historiography, media history, methodology, research, Scapple, Scrivener, software, word processing
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In the inaugural post in our "Digital Tools" series, Elana Levine discusses DEVONthink document management software and her methods for organizing historical research materials digitally.
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Tags: DEVONthink, digitization, document management, JotNot, media archives, media history, metadata, methodology, OCR, research, software, television history
Posted in Columns, Digital Tools | 5 Comments »
Peter Schaefer writes about the public face of radio preservation, making a case for acknowledging what's been lost to the ages while simultaneously showcasing what's been found.
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Tags: #RPTF, 1970s, Google Scholar, media archives, media history, New York City, Nights in Latin America, Pru Devon, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, WNYC, WQXR
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How did post-World War II female detectives balance authority and femininity on the radio? Catherine Martin writes about knowledge of urban geography as the source of a detective's power in "Candy Matson."
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Tags: #RPTF, Candy Matson, feminist media studies, Howard Duff, Natalie Masters, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, Sam Spade, YUkon 2-8209
Posted in Columns, Radio Preservation Task Force | 2 Comments »
Elizabeth Evans tracks the ongoing fallout of the BBC’s plan to relocate a channel to the online-only realm.
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Tags: audiences, BBC, British television, broadcasting, digital distribution, iPlayer, public service, television, youth
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Public-Service Streaming: BBC Three and the Politics of Online Engagement
Norma Coates reflects on what she learned about academic advising and mentoring from her own PhD advisor, Michele Hilmes.
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Tags: advising, graduate school, mentorship, Michele Hilmes
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