Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Oops, I Swiped My Book: Nostalgia and Finitude in Digital Media
Can a book really tell us about our changing attitudes towards knowledge? Can a page-flip user interface really shed light on ways of being in the world? The answers to these questions are not governed by destiny, but by your emergent responses.
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24 Hours in A&E: Public Service and the Fixed-Camera Documentary
The series deploys both technological innovation and audience-pleasing storytelling, whilst in the process educating the audience about emergency medicine and affirming the value of Britain’s NHS.
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The GSU Copyright Case: Lessons Learned [Part Two]
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Building on Monday's post, a consideration of individual educators and our personal stakes in the Georgia State copyright decision.
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Grimm and the Monstrous Feminine
Dead women are standard set dressing on most crime dramas, but the more I watched the more I realized the women in Grimm aren’t usually homicide victims – they’re monsters.
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The GSU Copyright Case: Lessons Learned [Part One]
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While the limited “wins” for the plaintiff have likely made future cases of this type more trouble than they are worth, the wider implications of the case are more concerning.
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Upfronts 2012: An A-Z of What’s New
Who gets their own show, and what can we expect, for the 2012-2013 season?
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Upfronts 2012: “Save our Show (On the Industry’s Margins)”
With no prominent "Save our Show" campaign following this year's cancellations, we should turn our attention to why we’re not talking about a big cancellation in a year where a number of highly-rated shows got canceled.
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The Pitch: Creativity in Advertising
AMC's The Pitch documents the legacy of the Creative Revolution by showing proponents of creativity in advertising insisting on the value of artfulness over scientism.
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What Are You Missing? Apr 29-May 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Creating a Spark: Official and Fan-Produced Transmedia for The Hunger Games
With the widespread use of Twitter and Tumblr, official and fan-produced transmedia increasingly share the same media spaces.
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The Dark Knight Rises: Fandom and the Folk Hero
Batman cannot survive as a single, fixed figure. Batman is a virus, a folk hero, an icon, an infection. He belongs to the people. He belongs to us.
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Stranded on the TV Battleground: Hulu’s Invisible Original
Despite generic familiarity and a solid first season, Hulu's Battleground has struggled to draw the attention of critics and viewers alike as the site's first original fictional series.
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Klosterman, philosophy and cultural studies: An audio interview
An audio interview with Chuck Klosterman, accompanied by a discussion of how his work not only blurs things that us cultural studies professors celebrate by taking “low” culture seriously, but also in a way that inevitably makes us nervous.
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Is HBO Making a Turn Toward Relevance?
HBO's Veep may have a veneer of frivolity, but it's part of HBO's larger move towards politically relevant material in 2012.
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Is It a Camel? Is It a Turban? No, It’s The 99! Marketing Islamic Superheroes as Global Cultural Commodities
This post identifies a couple of key tensions that emerge in trying to reposition Islam as a global brand through marketing Islamic superheroes The 99 as global cultural commodities.
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