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How to transform the potential of online communities like Simple Machine into local, public support for independent filmmaking?
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What I am interested here is the audience of forensic textual foragers that, like the true detectives themselves, followed the scattered bread crumbs that led towards, not the yellow brick road, but the yellow king and the city of Carcosa.
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Each winter, as February becomes March, Columbia, Missouri transforms itself into a grand stage for the True/False film fest, a four-day international nonfiction film festival.
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Continuing to think about LEGO, the idea of “creativity,” and the unequal extension of that idea to different consumer groups.
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My Facebook "Look Back" video was so curiously curated, uneventful, and unrepresentative of how I perceive my Facebook use that I’m still thinking about it weeks after it was generated.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality still persists in the twenty-first century both at the level of industry and aesthetics. Masculine film franchises were easy and the...
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Space is not neutral, especially the mobile app world in San Francisco.
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The underlying discourse of the interview is that media scrutiny and critique is the modus operandi of liberal/leftist/elitists. But who, exactly, are the elitists?
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Female-led film franchises are few and far between, especially in the traditionally masculine genres of science fiction and fantasy. There are, of course, exceptions to this ‘rule’ which I shall discuss in a moment – but, firstly, I would like to point out that I am not implying that so-called ‘boy’s genres’ – science...
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Ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Batkid's circulation throughout social media is shaped by affect and the emotional impact of that story, serving as an example of a socially acceptable way to share in moments of civic emotion.
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Ten or more media industry news stories from the past two weeks.
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