At FoE no one group is set up as knowing what’s going on, the other(s) being left simply to write notes. And thus it’s an interesting, if sometimes awkward exercise in talking across paradigms, goals, and vocabulary.
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Crowds, Words, and the Futures of Entertainment Conference
What Are You Missing? Oct 30-Nov 12
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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On Norman Corwin, Poet Laureate of American Radio
Norman Corwin's recent passing provides an ideal opportunity to consider the legacy of the man who has often been described as the poet laureate of American radio.
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Notes on the Laugh Track
The laugh track has persisted through decades of popular suspicion and disdain, but lately it has come to seem newly disreputable.
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How to be an Independent Scholar
Being an independent scholar means that research and academic writing must be redefined as pleasure: I research instead of watching TV or reading a book; I write instead of meeting with friends or going shopping; I edit and do professional activities at the cost of my family time.
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Moving
Academic life requires that one be able to move on command. But how does one do that?
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Life Is Not A Fairy Tale
Just in time for Halloween, ABC and NBC both rolled out new shows last week focusing on the basic premise that Fairy Tales are real and their protagonists, or their ancestors, are living somewhere in the United States.
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Sherlock and the representation of Chineseness
In a text so concerned with updating the Victorian source material to the contemporary period, there is very little else to the representation of Chineseness; it seems that Sherlock Holmes can use SMS messaging and GPS tracking, but Chinese culture is rendered remarkably narrow via such reductive stereotypes.
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Dual Academic Couples and Long Distance Living
Commuting is no way to work. It’s also no way to live. And yet I’m surprised by how many of us there are. Probably every professor knows at least one couple in a similar situation.
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Out of Time
Each year, the anticipated fall premiere television season is followed by an equally exciting period: fall cancellation season. The failures of The Playboy Club and Pan Am raise the question of why we turn to period TV, especially post-Mad Men.
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What Are You Missing? Oct 9-22
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Report From the Association of Internet Researchers Conference
Ben Aslinger, Sean Duncan, and Liz Ellcessor provide some thoughts on IR12, the 12th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was held in Seattle, October 10-13.
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Convergence Culture, Māori-Style: The Browning-Up of New Zealand?
A look at Māori television media convergence and multiplatform expansion.
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Glee: Kurt and the Casting Couch
In the second episode of Glee’s new season, “I Am Unicorn,” Kurt’s character loses the romantic lead in the school musical, West Side Story, to his more masculine boyfriend Blaine. The episode was both fascinating and confounding because instead of interrogating masculinist gender hierarchies, usually one of the show’s great strengths, the show affirmed...
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Report from the UW-Madison Television Comedy Conference
A summary of events and discussions that took place during the UW-Madison Television Comedy Conference.
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Digesting The Chew: Democracy & Distinction in Daytime
A first look at ABC's The Chew that considers the show's indistinct identity and uneasy relationship with an as yet undetermined imagined audience.
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