Technology

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The culture of contemporary baseball card collecting is an excellent example of how creativity can serve as a satisfying replacement for traditional economic incentives.
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Considering the larger historical context of the broadcasters' objections to Aereo, how might this case reflect how broadcasters are revising their commitment to "free" television?
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Amid the flurry of dialogue accumulating discursive authority as “The Year of the MOOC,” what is the contribution of the media and cultural studies scholar?
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As we reinvent our lives through gamification, we have to ask ourselves what it means to be alive.
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A year of misogyny in geek culture resurrected the booth babe debate that has contributed to a backlash against female fandom.
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As audiences migrate away from live TV viewing and advertisers become increasingly concerned about how to get their messages out, series like "Escape My Life," which invite viewers to engage more directly and deeply with a brand (while being entertained!), might just be the wave of the future.
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The broadcast networks respond to the introduction of Dish TV's new DVR, the Hopper, with outrage and litigation.
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What I find surprising about gaming M2AFs is how often they quickly turn intimate, even if the only connection between sender and receivers is an ad hoc one established to gain an achievement. It is not uncommon to get a highly personal message of one kind or another.
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I demand a moratorium on breathless distribution announcements from cable companies until they upgrade the user interface. We all know the technology exists.
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Recent comparisons to the early experience of using an ATM seem to offer quite a bit of potential for describing how we will be buying and watching movies and television shows in the near future.
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This piece begins a series reflecting on the trials and tribulations of digital pedagogy.
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20th Century Fox is mounting an Oscar campaign for The Planet of the Apes' Andy Serkis. Tama Leaver examines the potential implications of this sort of virtual acting or 'synthespian' (synthetic thespian) performance for our understanding of what it means to act or perform.
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As culture becomes increasingly digitized, arguments for the “dematerialization” of media are becoming commonplace. However, media have always been, and remain, embedded in and structured by material objects, networks, and practices that delimit their uses and meanings.
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Among the many threads entwined in this production are its virtually fetishistic engagement with and display of early 20th century material culture, including forms of media.
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