The Ashley Madison data breach and Rentboy's federally mandated closure underline Americans' ongoing problems with intimacy and digital technology and ultimately function as flare-ups in a perennial debate about whom and how people should desire and be.
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Tags: Ashley Madison, data breach, digital technology, hacks, intimacy, Obergefell v. Hodges, Rentboy, right to privacy
Posted in Perspectives, Technology, Technology | 1 Comment »
The FCC’s new Open Internet rules are a major come-from-behind victory for net neutrality. How in the world did this actually get done? And what exactly happens now?
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Tags: activism, broadband, common carriage, FCC, media policy, net neutrality, Open Internet, policymaking, regulation
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | Comments Off on What to Make of the Historic Net Neutrality Win
Interstellar’s real value is as an exploration of memory, of hope, and of the power of dreaming of a better tomorrow for our kids.
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Tags: film, interstellar, science fiction
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President Obama’s statement calling on the FCC to implement the strongest possible net neutrality regulations is significant for many reasons, including what it signals about citizen engagement in communications regulation and the politics of media policy.
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Tags: Barack Obama, digital media, FCC, internet, media policy, net neutrality, Open Internet, regulation, Tom Wheeler
Posted in Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | 2 Comments »
This new form of serialized nonfictional podcasting is both compelling essential listening, and a challenge to our expectations for journalism.
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Tags: crime procedural, journalism, Serial, seriality, The Wire, This American Life
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Thai protesters' appropriation of the three-finger salute articulates the relationship between popular culture and politics and places the protests within a history of fan-based civic engagement.
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Tags: civic engagement, Fan Engagement, fans, film, politics, popular culture, protests, Thailand, The Hunger Games
Posted in Global, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Print, Technology, Technology | 2 Comments »
With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Tags: cable news, CNN, journalism, Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, technology, television, TV
Posted in Global, Perspectives, Technology, Technology, TV, TV | Comments Off on Only Marginally More Unreal: Reconsidering CNN’s Coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370
A federal appeals court just ended net neutrality because the FCC didn't call it what it is: common carriage.
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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology | 3 Comments »
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
Posted in Film, Industry, Technology, TV | Comments Off on Rethinking Media Distribution
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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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, regulation, Verizon
Posted in Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Technology, Technology | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: archive, DVD, extracting clips, teach hacks
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Teach Hacks, Technology, TV | 1 Comment »
E3 begins this week and with it will come more news on Sony and Microsoft's new consoles. What might we learn and how will it change the entire gaming industry?
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Tags: e3, Microsoft, Nintendo, PlayStation, playstation 4, Sony, video games, Xbox, Xbox One
Posted in Current Events, Games, Industry, Industry, Technology, Technology | Comments Off on E3 Preview: Big Changes for the Gaming Industry
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Film, Film, Games, Games, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Music, Music, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
Prospect Park’s soap opera strategy tests traditional conceptions of televisual value within an evolving space of digital distribution.
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Tags: ABC, All My Children, digital distribution, Hulu, Hulu Plus, iTunes, One Life to Live, Prospect Park, Soap Operas, television, Value
Posted in Industry, Technology, TV | 6 Comments »
If Atmos or a similar system were to become the industry standard, questions arise as to how its potential aesthetic might shape the way films sound and look.
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Tags: Aesthetics, Digital Cinema Package, Digital Surround Sound, Disney, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, film sound, movie theaters, sound studies
Posted in Film, Technology | 5 Comments »
