After just over six years in business, Antenna is done. Goodbye and thanks!
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Goodbye to Antenna
What’s New in Media Industries? A Revised Edition of Understanding Media Industries
What's new in Amanda Lotz and Timothy Havens' Understanding Media Industries 2?
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The New Hegemonic Hierarchy: Tracking (Men’s) Athletic Activity
Are networked fitness-tracking apps another tool to preserve male hegemony? Rebecca Feasey pokes at the latest trend in MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra)–ian behavior.
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“Real” Transmedia: Cultures and Communities of Cross-Platform Media in Colombia
Transmedia is more than just a tool for commercial industries. Matt Freeman looks at South American views and uses of transmedia to rethink its contributions to cultural memory...
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Serial Goes Missing
Neil Verma discusses how Serial host Sarah Koenig's obsession was the real protagonist of the podcast's first season, and how the new second season differs narratively and tonally because...
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The Force Re-Awakens: Star Wars, Repetition, and Nostalgia, Part 2
In Part 2 of 2, it's asked what repetition or originality even mean in a sequel, and how The Force Awakens is "nostalgic."
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The Force Re-Awakens: Star Wars, Repetition, and Nostalgia, Part 1
What's new about The Force Awakens? Amidst criticisms of the film's adherence to A New Hope, is it all just repetition?
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Original or Exclusive? Shifts in Television Financing and Distribution Shift Meanings
In addition to increasing the possible objects of study, broadband-distributed television services have introduced new challenges to grounding the television shows we study in their industrial milieu.
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The Rise of Big Copyright: Content Protection and the Formation of Anti-Piracy Alliances
Welcome to the world of Big Copyright: Paul McDonald looks at the new regime of national, regional and global industry alliances policing intellectual property in screen media.
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“Not Linear or On-Demand”: Television in “the Internet Age”
Is this the end for linear TV? As television and the internet become increasingly intertwined, Catherine Johnson investigates UK broadcasters’ evolving strategies to deliver TV online.
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Pretty in Pink: BBC iPlayer and the Promotion of On-Demand Television
TV on demand: always there when you need it, but for what? Paul Grainge explores the promotional imagination of on-demand television, and the move from “platform mobility” to current...
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First Forum Conference, USC School of Cinematic Arts
USC School of Cinematic Arts hosted its first forum, “On the Fringe: Understanding Alternative and Subversive Media." The two-day event had numerous panels and included special presentations on...
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Low Power FM Radio: A Conversation with Christina Dunbar-Hester and Sanjay Jolly
Dialogue between Christina Dunbar-Hester and Sanjay Jolly about the state of radio activism and low power FM radio.
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3-D Television and the Stereoscopic Archive
Amid continued proclamation of 3D television's "failure," Nick Camfield looks at 3D home video's contributions to the afterlife of historical 3D films.
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A Tribute to Barbara Klinger
We asked several scholars who have worked with the retiring Barbara Klinger, past and present, to offer some words.
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She Works Hard for the Money/Man/Shoes/Herself/Her Sisters…
In the fourth and final installment of a limited series on Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early Twenty-First Century, contributor Elizabeth Nathanson outlines the anthology's...
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