Are networked fitness-tracking apps another tool to preserve male hegemony? Rebecca Feasey pokes at the latest trend in MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra)–ian behavior.
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Tags: App Culture, apps, fitness culture, hegemonic masculinity, masculinity, social media, sports, Strava
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In this latest entry in the Aesthetic Turn series, Megan Sapnar Ankerson explores how Google's aesthetic shift from "transparency" to "beauty" serves as a site for critical engagement with the aesthetics of digital artifacts.
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Tags: apps, beautiful revolution, design, Google, information aesthetics, internet, Larry Page, media aesthetics, mobile, PageRank, search engines, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Susan Sontag, touch, ubicomp, UX, web design
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Jeremy Morris provides a report from the Apps and Affect conference held back in mid-October, which brought together a wide range of new media scholars to examine the relations between mobile apps and their networked context.
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Tags: App Culture, Apple, apps, Apps and Affect, Casual Software, DJ Spooky, Imaginary App, Jodi Dean, Mark Andrejevic, Paul Miller, Software Commodity, Svitlana Matviyenko
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Star Trek, Strongbox, Tumblr, Xbox, Xbox One, Yahoo, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 12 – May 25
Some influential figures of the cinema world are tentatively exploring a loosening of bans on cell phones during select screenings, refueling the ever-controversial debate of movie theater etiquette.
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Tags: apps, digital media, exhibition, film, industry, movie theaters, smartphones, texting
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, advertising, apps, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, distribution, Facebook, Google, magazines, MPAA, MySpace, Netflix, newspapers, piracy, Redbox, social media, streaming, tax credits, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Cannes, copyright, e-readers, Facebook, Google, magazines, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, newspapers, Pandora, piracy, politics, social media, Spotify, television, Twitter
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Blockbuster, box office, broadband, digital distribution, DVD, film criticism, Hollywood, Hulu, internet, iTunes, Netflix, print media, publishing, social gaming, Sony, streaming, television, video games
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? February 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Apple, apps, Blockbuster, DVDs, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, indie cinema, iPad, mobile technology, MPAA, music industry, Netflix, newspapers, piracy, Pixar, Redbox, television, Twitter, video games
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 10-23
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Blockbuster, Digg, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, hyperlinks, independent film, internet, iTunes, magazines, music, Netflix, news media, Ping, print media, Redbox, Reddit, social media, streaming, Summer Media, television, Twitter, video games, viral, VOD, YouTube
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