Walt and Jesse return to where the series began to stage the program's climactic peak.
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Current Events
Breaking Bad Breakdown: Peaking Plot
Why Verizon v. FCC Matters for Net Neutrality— and Why It Doesn’t
The policy battle over net neutrality is heating back up with the hearing in Verizon v. FCC. Here's what's at stake in the case.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Postponing Progress
The season hits its first speed bump, as characters bide time while looking toward the inevitable confrontation.
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What Are You Missing? Aug 19 – Sept 1
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Disney Infinity: Behind the P(l)aywall [Part Three]
Disney's latest venture aims to earn much of its value through creativity, but you'll have to play—and pay—for it.
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Disney Infinity: A Promotional Platform [Part Two]
Thinking about Infinity as a replacement for licensed tie-ins—as opposed to the creative revolution they claim—may still be overestimating Disney’s plans.
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Disney Infinity: A Low-Risk Revolution [Part One]
Disney Interactive's big gaming industry play comes with rhetoric of revolution, and a business model built on the success of other gaming platforms.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Title Tricking
This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging Down
All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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What Are You Missing? Aug 5 – Aug 18
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Fast Forwarding
Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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Teach Hacks: Creating Clips from DVDs
Extracting clips from DVDs is and will continue to be a crucial skill for media educators and researchers even as cloud and streaming services threaten DVDs; here's how to do it.
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Inspiring Fans at LeakyCon Portland
Part 5 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon explores the ways fans and their creative labors influence the work of stars and producers of source texts.
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From LGBT to GSM: Gender and Sexual Identity among LeakyCon’s Queer Youth (LeakyCon Portland)
Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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What Are You Missing? July 22 – Aug 4
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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