What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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Perspectives
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences
Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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Friday Night Lights: The Musical! or Glee‘s After-School Sing-a-long
I feel like the “powers that Glee” (PTG) are trying to combat complaints of minimal plot development. After last week’s most excellent narrative-filled musical numbers, my hopes were high. It looked like they might pull it off, but then it became Glee meets Friday Night Lights. Say it ain't so!
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Did the UK General Election Debates Make a Difference?
The British General Election of 2010 likely will be seen as a decisive moment in the country’s democratic history, not just because of its unusually messy result, but also because it heralded a new era in the mediation of electoral politics.
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Farewell to a Great TV Show
Thoughts on the retirement of one of America's great journalists, Bill Moyers.
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Watching Like a Mother
In the nearly three years since I joined the motherhood, I’ve noticed differences in the meanings I make and in what stays with me.
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Why So Young, Network TV?
Tonight, when Betty White hosts Saturday Night Live, American network television will be stepping outside of its comfort zone, by featuring someone a whole 5.5 times as old as Justin Bieber.
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Do New Media/Social Media Distort Political Reality?
As the Republican Party careens off into the netherworld of nuttery crafted by right wingnuts, we must ask ourselves what role users of new media play in helping craft their appeal. Do they deserve the attention we afford them through our own actions employing new media/social media?
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Character Bleed; or, What is Lorelai Gilmore Doing with Nate Fisher?
Seeing Graham as Sarah Braverman evokes for both Derek and me her role of Lorelai, but whereas I view Sarah as maybe a little snarkier and wittier than she’s written in the show, for Derek the roles crash.
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A Damaged Conclusion
Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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Glee Club: Performing Recordings
Some thoughts on the peculiar nature of Glee's soundtrack and why it both pulls me in and repels me from the program.
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Getting Beyond the Thunderdome: David Brooks’ Fantastical “Riders on the Storm”
Are people more open to new ideas when they get their daily news through the Internet or do they tend to use today's historically unparalleled access to support what they already think?
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The Right to Make Wrong TV?
Later this year, the RightNetwork, a network dedicated to programming solely for conservatives, will launch. I’m intrigued by this network for a few reasons.
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Mind The Gap: Watching Doctor Who in America
What has Doctor Who looked like from "the other side of the pond"?
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Is the Auteur All Wet? On David Simon’s Adventures in Authenticity in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Is it problematic that Treme seems to hit some false notes? Only until the series begins to interrogate the authenticity tropes one might have expected it to create.
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