The list below features Twitter Accounts that I've personally found consistently useful and valuable. So what are yours?
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What Do You Think? Most Useful Media Studies Twitter Streams
What Do You Think? Apple’s new iPad
Apple has a new product. Are the possibilities as endless as the apps in the app store or is it much ado about nothing?
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Lessons From Jay, Coco, and Zucker
In debriefing what went wrong with the Jay Leno Show, we shouldn’t just ask what Leno’s failure says – we should also ask what the combination of the failure and the momentary ratings spike says.
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5 Thoughts On: MacGruber
Five thoughts on the film adaptation of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber.
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife
In the past few weeks, a fresh controversy about the working conditions in the industry of game development has arisen, this time centered on Rockstar San Diego.
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Housewives in Crisis, Economic that Is
Though we can always expect a good relationship crisis from the gals, the “Housewife” series on Bravo in 2009 promised all sorts of insights into market crisis.
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What Do You Think? Most Important Films of the Decade
Continuing with our series, what films would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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The Role of the Media in Times of Crisis
The US television coverage of Haiti has me thinking about the role of media in a humanitarian crisis.
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The “Down with Democrats” Mood and Our Presentist Media
Although the public is notoriously ahistorical about contemporary politics, the news media do little to remind them of how we got here. Political reporting looks more and more like entertainment/celebrity reporting, and Obama will need to return to campaign mode to capitalize on that.
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Important Games of the 00s
What makes a game important? Is it commercial sales, the ways a game showcases how skilled a designer or studio is at their craft, the visceral response a game gives you, the player communities spawned by a game, the ways designers construct character/story/space, or the ways that games open up new genres, new...
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5 Thoughts On: ABC’s Modern Family
One Show, Five Thoughts.
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Smells Like an Ethnically Divided Teen Star System
The photos of the six actresses, all trumpeted as stars on the verge, were displayed in such a way that Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, who is of partial Filipino, Chinese, and Native American descent, and Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, were positioned opposite “white” actresses Lily Collins, Isabel Lucas, and...
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Could the New Black Box be White?
When the New York Times reported that Netflix’s instant streaming video would soon be available on the Wii the feeling of inevitability was palpable, but not for the reasons you’d think. Netflix, the article explained, is already on Wii’s competing consoles the PS3 and XBOX and a reflection of the fact that most consoles...
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What Do You Think? Most Important Music of the Decade
Continuing with our series, what musical recordings (i.e. albums, singles) would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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Simon Says Cheerio
Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol. But ironically to keep the "American" in American Idol, the show needs Simon, or at least an angry, pompous, belittling Brit judge like him.
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Google leaving China?
In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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