In the so-called “attention economy,” brands increasingly harness the immaterial labor of social media participants. To what extent can these digital activities by understood as gendered? This post draws on findings from a recently published International Journal of Cultural Studies article to explore the gendered politics of social media labor.
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Tags: branding, consumer culture, digital labor, digital media, fashion blogs, gender, IJCS, International Journal of Cultural Studies, social media
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In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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Tags: ABC, CES, digital media, Dragon's Den, entrepreneurship, Mark Cuban, media aesthetics, Reviver, Shark Tank, Silicon Valley, StartUp, technology, television
Posted in Perspectives, Technology, TV | Comments Off on As Seen on Shark Tank: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics
“Desperately seeking the audience” of computational tools and digital methods for media studies research.
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Tags: academia, algorithms, audiences, digital humanities, digital media, methods
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President Obama’s statement calling on the FCC to implement the strongest possible net neutrality regulations is significant for many reasons, including what it signals about citizen engagement in communications regulation and the politics of media policy.
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Tags: Barack Obama, digital media, FCC, internet, media policy, net neutrality, Open Internet, regulation, Tom Wheeler
Posted in Industry, Internet, Politics, Technology | 2 Comments »
Despite differences in style and content in AT&T’s branded entertainment, @summerbreak and The Bell Telephone Hour share promotional goals of consumer education and aspirational culture.
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Tags: @summerbreak, AT&T, Bell, digital media, internet, radio, Rehearsal, social media, television, The Bell Telephone Hour, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Radio, TV | 1 Comment »
Sirius XM's recent live broadcast of the Governors Ball highlights the persistence of place, of musical “hotspots,” within the satellite radio universe.
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Tags: digital media, Governors Ball, internet, Janelle Monae, music, Music Festivals, radio, satellite radio, Sirius XM, television
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Music, Music, On Radio, Perspectives, Radio, Radio | 1 Comment »
Despite its myriad problems, here are some reasons to like Facebook.
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Tags: digital media, Facebook, internet, social media
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Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
Posted in Film, Industry, Technology, TV | Comments Off on Rethinking Media Distribution
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, digital media, Game of Thrones, Hollywood, Hulu, internet, Netflix, television
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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: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: box office, Cablevision, digital media, Disney, DRM, EA, ESA, ESRB, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, megaupload, News Corp., publishing, simcity, television, Time Magazine, Time Warner, upfronts, Viacom
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 3-March 16
As we reinvent our lives through gamification, we have to ask ourselves what it means to be alive.
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Tags: Apple, digital media, gamification, gaming, internet, iPad, iphone, Jane McGonigal, Kinect, Nike, social media, TED, The Office, user-generated content, video games, Web. 2.0, Xbox 360
Posted in Games, Internet, Perspectives, Technology, TV | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, box office, children, China, cloud services, digital media, Disney, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-readers, gaming, Hollywood, internet, iTunes, music, Nintendo, Redbox, social media, streaming, television, UltraViolet, Wal-mart, Xbox
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What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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Tags: box office, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iTunes, magazines, music, newspapers, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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