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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?

April 17, 2010
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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?

Today is Record Store Day, a music industry event taking place at hundreds of independent record shops internationally. But is this "holiday," intended to bolster record retailers, really better seen as an assertion of vinyl's renewed importance in the industry?
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The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad

April 5, 2010
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The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad

I beta tested the first generation of the Apple iPad, so that you don't have to.
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SCMS + SXSW = ?

SCMS + SXSW = ?

Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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The Warner Archive Program and Hollywood History

March 12, 2010
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The Warner Archive Program and Hollywood History

The studio vaults have opened -- but is that a good thing?
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Watching Twitter on TV

February 25, 2010
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Watching Twitter on TV

The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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Look at Your Hands: Computing, Embodiment, and the iPad

January 28, 2010
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Look at Your Hands: Computing, Embodiment, and the iPad

While much of yesterday’s Internet conversation centered on whether the iPad is a game changer for TV, gaming, publishing, and future of ebooks, I want to address the potentially unnerving aspects of how Apple constructed the user yesterday and point out that while Apple may be a global company, its users are definitely not.
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What Do You Think? Apple’s new iPad

January 27, 2010
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What Do You Think? Apple’s new iPad

Apple has a new product. Are the possibilities as endless as the apps in the app store or is it much ado about nothing?
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

January 24, 2010
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

In the past few weeks, a fresh controversy about the working conditions in the industry of game development has arisen, this time centered on Rockstar San Diego.
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The Post-TV Era

December 11, 2009
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The Post-TV Era

A deal that will indelibly alter our media landscape, throw the future of broadcast into question, promise new distribution models, expand interactive and “addressable” advertising… a deal that will fundamentally redefine television. No, I’m not talking about the Comcast-NBC Universal announcement that made waves last week. This was the hype surrounding the...
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