DC Comics must move beyond its traditional business model if it really wants to attract new readers.
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DC Comics’ Halfhearted Appeal to an Alternate Readership
Public-Service Streaming: BBC Three and the Politics of Online Engagement
Elizabeth Evans tracks the ongoing fallout of the BBC’s plan to relocate a channel to the online-only realm.
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Of Algorithms and Audiences
“Desperately seeking the audience” of computational tools and digital methods for media studies research.
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Simple Machine & Micro-Wave: Building a Grassroots Film Community
How to transform the potential of online communities like Simple Machine into local, public support for independent filmmaking?
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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies
In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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Contingent Labor and the Possibility of Creative Coalitions
Adrienne Shaw explores how academics, fans, and industry professionals are all laborers of love and how a coalitional attitude could benefit all parties in our quest to engage with our beloved media objects.
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The Aesthetic Turn: Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetic Experience
In this inaugural post in Antenna's new series on cultural studies and media aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Turn," Kyle Conway queries media's experiential dimensions.
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What Are You Missing? Jan 20-Feb 2
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Who (does HBO hope) is watching Girls?
After two episodes of trying to decide how I feel about the show, I started to wonder: Who does HBO hope will watch Girls? Girls’ small initial audience suggests that its audience “isn’t easily defined.”
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Compulsory Ultrasound Audiences and Feminism
Republican and anti-choice ultrasound bills and laws have justifiably come under fire for being physically invasive, but what they say about women as audiences and as citizens is every bit as disturbing.
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DC Comics Goes All In
Is the comics industry doomed or simply too insular?
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences
Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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Quirks, Viewers, Commerce are the Real QVC
There's so much more to QVC than chirpy hosts, costume jewelry, and the bloopers you see on The Soup. One fan and scholar attempts to explain and redeem the oft-mocked shopping channel.
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