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
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There is a difference between the Canadian edition of Netlix and the Canadians who watch Netflix. What does that mean for the future of the service in Canada?
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Tags: Amazon Prime, canada, CraveTV, CRTC, Netflix, Shomi, streaming media
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In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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Tags: ABC, CES, digital media, Dragon's Den, entrepreneurship, Mark Cuban, media aesthetics, Reviver, Shark Tank, Silicon Valley, StartUp, technology, television
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Advancing Our Way to the Bottom? My kids' “now” and “just what I wanted” style of viewership encourages them to be tiny, impatient content bullies.
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Tags: cordcutting, kids, kids media, unboxing videos, video on demand, YouTube
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We have been to three girl-focused cons this summer and fall: LeakyCon, DashCon and GeekGirlCon. These cons are non-profit, largely run by volunteers, and provide alternative geeky spaces to male-dominated cons. These cons extend the work of social media such as Tumbr by providing safe public spaces where feminist, feminine, and queer young people can...
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Tags: DashCon, Fattitude, feminism, GeekGirlCon, gender, Gender Equality, LeakyCon, localism, publics, queer, Seattle con
Posted in Film, Games, Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | 2 Comments »
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
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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
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Despite its myriad problems, here are some reasons to like Facebook.
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Tags: digital media, Facebook, internet, social media
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To paraphrase Robert Allen and Douglas Gomery in Film History: Theory and Practice, media depends on machines. Technology contextualizes industrial and stylistic change, reveals and obscures sites of cultural negotiation and meaning, and enables new modes of media production, circulation, and reception. The significance of technology to media studies has only become more acute...
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Tags: CFP, technology, The Velvet Light Trap
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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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Tags: AT&T, broadband, Comcast, common carriage, Discourse, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Open Internet, policy, policy sphere, policymaking, regulation, Verizon
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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
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This week, Lantern, a search and visualization platform for the Media History Digital Library, reached its first wide public.
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Tags: david bordwell, eric hoyt, film history, Lantern, media history, Media History Digital Library
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Film, Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Print, Radio, Technology, TV | 11 Comments »
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
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The question I’m often asked by people afraid of the ephemerality of broadcast is: How do I record television? And how do I save what I’ve recorded for posterity? Here are my practical steps with relevant hardware suggestions.
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Tags: archive, archives, DVR, how to, teach hacks, television recording, TV tuner
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