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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To XFinity and Beyond… The Missing Smart Living Room TV Interface
On Radio: The Practice of Podcasting
And this is what still remains exciting about podcasting: the format has prompted a reconsideration of what we can expect from radio.
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What is MIP?
The Media Industries Project (MIP) examines the rapid and dramatic changes affecting the media industries worldwide, focusing especially on globalization, digitization, and creative labor. As a research program of the Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara, we generate a range of critical analyses and innovative resources in collaboration with industry practitioners, policy experts, and...
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What Are You Missing? Feb 12-March 3
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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An Incomplete History: “Women Who Rock” at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I found myself in Cleveland last week. My friend Amy Rigby, a musician who plies her trade in one of the parallel music industries that I talked about in my recent post about the Grammy Awards, had things to do in Cleveland. I’d been threatening for months to take advantage of being on sabbatical...
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Award Winning: The 84th Annual Academy Awards
This year posed a strongly economic undercurrent to the Oscar's traditional nostalgia.
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Compulsory Ultrasound Audiences and Feminism
Republican and anti-choice ultrasound bills and laws have justifiably come under fire for being physically invasive, but what they say about women as audiences and as citizens is every bit as disturbing.
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When Finding Feminism Means Creating Your Own Space
Finding the feminism in media studies can sometimes mean finding feminism in ourselves and enacting our own agency to make change, no matter how small it may seem.
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Half-time in America
I love the SuperBowl, but not for the reasons you’d expect. I usually don’t know who’s in it, don’t care who wins it, and don’t watch it. I do, however, love to use it in class when I teach TV Criticism because I’ve found the Super Bowl’s ads are useful texts with which to...
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Finding Feminist Media Studies
Feminism is not just an approach one might take. It's kind of the point.
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1984 All Over Again: The 2012 Grammy Awards Telecast
I’m going to say this up front: I’m a music snob, and I hate the very idea of the Grammy Awards. If you’re looking for dispassionate analysis, stop reading now.
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What Are You Missing? Jan 29-Feb 11
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Brotherhood of NBC
When NBC aired its "Brotherhood of Man" promotion before the Super Bowl on Sunday, it provided a useful take on the network's biggest strength...and its potential weakness.
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To Rule the World from the 50-Yard Line
What does Madonna’s half-time performance mean?
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Key and Peele: Identity, Shockingly Translated
Is Key and Peele tentatively picking up the mantel of satiric sketch comedy that Chappelle abandoned? Why now?
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Accessing the Cinematic Cloud
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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