CFP for a Special Issue of Journal of Popular Film and Television: “New Directions in Screen Technologies”
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, China, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, iTunes, Lionsgate, music, newspapers, Nintendo, piracy, Reddit, Sony, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, UltraViolet
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Devices like Roku that sync existing television sets with the Internet are imperfect technologies.
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Tags: digital media, liveness, media industries, Roku, streaming television, technology, temporality
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I invested in a Roku box to reduce costs by streaming television over the Internet rather than paying for cable. Mission accomplished? Kind of.
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Tags: digital media, liveness, media industries, Roku, streaming television, technology, temporality
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Can a book really tell us about our changing attitudes towards knowledge? Can a page-flip user interface really shed light on ways of being in the world? The answers to these questions are not governed by destiny, but by your emergent responses.
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Tags: digital media, Hugo, iBooks, nostalgia, Page Flip, Remediation
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Blu-ray, books, canada, digital distribution, digital media, documentary, DVD, e-readers, gaming, Google, Hollywood, Microsoft, mobile technology, movie theaters, privacy, search engines, television, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, box office, digital media, DVDs, e-books, independent, internet, magazines, mobile gaming, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, television, Twitter, Xbox
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As the lights rose on a recent late night edition of ESPN’s SportsCenter, anchors Stuart Scott and Scott van Pelt grinned disingenuously, like desperate salesmen sampling crumb cake before demanding we sign for all eight units. ESPN had just wrapped coverage of an utterly forgettable college basketball game that saw No. 5 North Carolina...
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, digital media, Disney, DMCA, DVDs, e-readers, gaming, Hollywood, independent, independent film, internet, mobile gaming, music, Sony, stardom, television, video on demand, Warner Bros., YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Amazon, books, cloud services, digital media, Hollywood, independent, internet, net neutrality, Netflix, oscars, Paramount, porn, social media, Sony, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, video games, Wal-mart, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Amazon, AOL, Apple, cloud services, digital media, Facebook, film festivals, Google, Hollywood, Lionsgate, movie theaters, music, MySpace, Netflix, streaming, summer blockbusters, television, Tumblr, Twitter, video games, video on demand, Wal-mart, Yahoo
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, books, China, cloud services, comic books, digital media, Disney, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, magazines, Miramax, mobile media, MP3, music, Netflix, Pandora, piracy, radio, social media, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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A hunt for elusive video game silence and an investigation of its meaning.
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On April 1, 2011, several websites joked around with media history.
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Antenna asks for your take on the place of media in the events in Egypt.
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Tags: Al Jazeera, digital media, Egypt, internet, politics, social media, streaming, TV, Twitter, YouTube
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