The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen

April 20, 2011
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The Big Easy Returns to the Small Screen

David Simon's Treme returns this Sunday for its second season. Antenna will be following all of the action with a weekly column on the program to be published each Wednesday.
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What Are You Missing? April 3-16

April 17, 2011
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What Are You Missing? April 3-16

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Egregious Product Placement? New Regulations in the UK

April 13, 2011
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Egregious Product Placement? New Regulations in the UK

The UK now allows product placement in television programming, and their regulations on those placements perpetuate a false dichotomy regarding the logics and goals of product integration.
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Great Barbeque, Gigabits, and Google

April 6, 2011
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Great Barbeque, Gigabits, and Google

After sifting though around 1,100 applications and high profile pleas, Google recently picked a site for its 1 Gbps fiber network. And according to Google, Kansas City Kansas beats. . . well, everywhere. Why KCK? And what does this mean for the rest of us?
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The Mad-ness of Precarious Programming?

April 5, 2011
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The Mad-ness of Precarious Programming?

It is no longer impossible to imagine that AMC might move on, leaving its signature show behind.
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April Fools’ Day and the Ghosts of Media Past

April 4, 2011
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April Fools’ Day and the Ghosts of Media Past

On April 1, 2011, several websites joked around with media history.
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What Are You Missing? Mar 20-April 2

April 3, 2011
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What Are You Missing? Mar 20-April 2

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?

March 31, 2011
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?

In what ways does the medium and its exploration connect with the traditional foci of humanistic study: life, death, friendship, love, work, play, language, learning, history, and so on?
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races

March 30, 2011
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Watching the World’s Amazing Races

What I find frustrating about the show is not simply that it ends up Othering the world, but that it could be so much better. It’s like a B student who writes occasionally brilliant sentences, yet who isn’t trying hard enough.
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So It’s Come to This: An Antenna Clips Show

March 21, 2011
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So It’s Come to This: An Antenna Clips Show

It’s Spring Break for us here, hence a slowdown in publishing. But just like any bad sitcom, there’s always the clip show, so we thought we’d remind you of what’s been published here this year.
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What Are You Missing? March 6 – 19

March 20, 2011
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What Are You Missing? March 6 – 19

Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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On (Not) Hosting the Session that Killed the Term “Acafan”

March 18, 2011
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On (Not) Hosting the Session that Killed the Term “Acafan”

(Why) Do we need the term acafandom?
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The Unicorn That Roared

March 17, 2011
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The Unicorn That Roared

I know that even as the bad job market is a haunting reality for most grad students, it's also a gamble every one is clearly willing to take, deep down surely believing that they will beat the odds. After all, everyone whom they encounter and interact with has done so, right?
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Report from SCMS: Saturday, Sunday, and Beyond

March 16, 2011
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Report from SCMS: Saturday, Sunday, and Beyond

While there have been a number of diverse responses to this year’s SCMS, a substantial portion of the discussion boils down to this central question: why do we attend academic conferences?
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Report from SCMS: Friday

March 12, 2011
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Two days in and SCMS 2011 has already proved an amazing experience.
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Report From SCMS: Thursday

March 11, 2011
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Report From SCMS: Thursday

The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in New Orleans this week. First up: a Thursday report from Christine Becker, focusing primarily on the SCMS website workshop.
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