Announcement of national conference for the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress, February 25-27, 2016.
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Tags: #RPTF, academic conference, Alan Lomax, Christopher Sterling, Library of Congress, media history, National Recording Preservation Board, NPR, Pacifica, prometheus radio, public radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, radio studies, smithsonian, smithsonian folklife, sound studies, studs terkel, third coast
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Karen Petruska reflects on the importance of conference participation in the form of SIGs, committees, and public policy and promotion, all of which operate as the less visible yet vital backbone of SCMS.
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Tags: Aca-Media, academic conference, academic service work, media industries, media studies, scholarly interest groups, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Teaching Dossier
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Collenn Glenn reports on the significance of specialized scholarly interest groups for academic organizations like the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), which held its annual conference in Montreal last week.
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Tags: 9/11, academic conference, media studies, scholarly interest groups, SCMS, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, War
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Derek Long continues our series of SCMS 2015 conference reports with a summary and assessment of some of the digitally-oriented panels and presentations.
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Tags: academic conference, DHSCMS, digital humanities, digital scholarship, Jean Desmet, media studies, Project Arclight, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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Bill Kirkpatrick continues our week-long series of reports from the SCMS 2015 conference. He argues that radio studies within SCMS is coming into its own, and the Society is better for it.
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Tags: academic conference, media studies, radio, radio studies, SCMS Radio Studies Scholarly Interest Group, SCMS15, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, held this March 25-29, was in many ways a media event. But what kind of media event was it, and what are the implications of the conference's more public presence?
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Tags: academia, academic conference, analytics, live-tweeting, media event, media studies, open access, SCMS, SCMS15, social media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Tweetdeck, Twitter
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The Generation(s) of Television Studies symposium, held at the University of Georgia, made visible just how influential Horace Newcomb has been to the field.
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Reality Gendervision: Sexuality and Gender on Reality TV Conference, on April 26-27, 2013, at Indiana University.
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Tags: academic conference, conference, feminism, gender, gender politics, gender/representation, reality television, Reality TV
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Live-tweeting academic conferences is a relatively new phenomenon; as a result, conference participants and coordinators are still working out the kinks.
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Tags: academic conference, American Culture Association, backchannel, Console-ing Passions 2010, hashtag, live-tweeting, PCA/ACA, Popular Culture Association, SCMS, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, SW/TX PCA/ACA, Twitter
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