What happens when the television production schedule leads to promotions which are out of date by the time they air?
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Problematic Promotional Moments
Occupy TV?
A look at the differences between how Occupy Wall Street is framed on Fox News, MSNBC, and the Daily Show versus how greater, more diverse coverage circulates on Twitter.
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Single Motherhood and the Faculty Life
Motherhood and academia are in many ways an uneasy mix. And even more so when it comes to single motherhood.
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Fighting Ephemerality: The 9/11 Television News Archive
The archive has a tremendous role to play in helping researchers reconstruct the past as seen on television, but it also helps us pinpoint precisely how history's televised narrative is already a construct—a carefully crafted and complex set of signs and symbols.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 25-Oct 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Nativist Stylebook Dictates News Writing
New immigration laws in Alabama are forcing schools to report the immigrant status of children and making unenforceable most contracts between citizens and undocumented immigrants and impacting Latina/o populations in the process. In this context, we must move away from the "i" word--illegal--when discussing undocumented workers and citizens.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Media
Music in the cloud services, such as Apple's iCloud, are a specific snapshot of music as a cultural commodity, one that sees music as indelibly networked to certain providers and technologies.
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All the Single Academics
This piece attempts to challenge the stereotypes that single academics can write all the time (or any time we want), are free from family responsibility, and somehow have it “easier” than other academics.
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Still late to the party? TV adaptation modes for foreign audiences
Are Italian audiences different from American audiences because they are culturally and linguistically dissimilar or because local distribution choices affect their consumption of a given audiovisual product?
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The Distribution of Sympathy and the Death Penalty
On September 21, both Troy Davis and Russell Brewer were executed in Texas. Despite differences, the two cases both demonstrate inequalities in the way individuals are able to appear as victims (or perpetrators) within legal procedure and decisions.
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What Are You Missing? Sept 11-24
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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R.E.M 1980-2011
By the time they announced their breakup, R.E.M. had become so taken for granted that it was easy to poke fun. Yet, as the effusive post-mortems everywhere suggest, they became an institution for a reason
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A Step Toward Fixing Peer Reviews: Sign Them
There are many proposals to transform institutions of peer review, and perhaps in time some will come to fruition. But there is a simple step that every concerned reviewer could take, right now, to make the process better, fairer, more useful and more human.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: ABC
Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new ABC programs. Responses thus far: Revenge, Charlie's Angels, Pan Am and Suburgatory.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: CBS
It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new CBS shows! Responses so far: 2 Broke Girls, Unforgettable, Person of Interest and A Gifted Man.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: The CW
It's Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new CW programs. Responses so far: Ringer, H8R, The Secret Circle and Hart of Dixie.
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