Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Apple, digital media, Disney, distribution, documentary, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, indie cinema, internet, iTunes, movie theaters, MPAA, music, piracy, privacy, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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Are lifestyle brands the new record labels? A new recording studio owned by Converse is offering musicians the opportunity to record their music for free, further reducing the need for artists to work with traditional record labels. There are, of course, some strings attached.
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Tags: advertising, Converse, digital media, internet, music, music industry, radio, Rubber Tracks, television
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, Music | 5 Comments »
Over the summer, we launched a location-aware iPhone app we called Bike Box. The goal in developing this project was to use smartphone technology to enhance rather than replace a user’s experience of physical space.
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Tags: Bike Box, digital media, geolocation, iphone, mobile technology, space
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, advertising, comics, digital media, digital music, DMCA, Facebook, file sharing, Google, Hollywood, Home Video, internet, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, social media, streaming, television, Twitter, video games
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Blockbuster, copyright, digital media, Google, Hollywood, independent film, internet, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, streaming, television, video games, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, digital media, distribution, DVD, Facebook, film, independent film, intellectual property, internet, music, online games, piracy, streaming, television, Twitter, video games
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The information and communication technologies for development (ITC4D) initiative can and should be more than developmentalism. How can we think more broadly about the pleasures of engaging with emerging media?
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Tags: digital media, fandom
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At Console-ing Passions, you can expect scholarship on culture, identity, gender, and sexuality (as they relate to media) in every panel—and it’s great to mingle with so many brilliant feminist scholars!
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Tags: academicconference, Console-ing Passions 2010, digital media, fandom, feminism, gender, race/ethnicity, television
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Glee has garnered ardent fans, or Gleeks, around the world. Just as notable, it appears to have been embraced as particularly American. What is it about the series that has inspired this phenomenon?
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Tags: digital media, fandom, FOX, Glee, race/ethnicity, television
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Tags: BBC, Blockbuster, Chatroulette, digital media, Disney, DVD, gender, indecency, internet, movies, music, oscars, social networking, studios, television, video games, Warner Bros., YouTube
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The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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Tags: convergence, digital media, new media, social networking, technology, television, TV, Twitter, widgets
Posted in Current Events, Internet, Technology, TV | 21 Comments »
Despite all the other Buzz around Google lately, its other announcement last week is the real big deal: Google's plan to build an experimental 1 Gbps, fiber-to-the-home broadband network will have a big impact on net neutrality and broadband stimulus policies.
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Tags: broadband, digital media, FCC, Google, internet, National Broadband Plan, net neutrality, policy, social networking
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What's in a name? Hasbro and Discovery begin branding efforts for their new joint venture cable network debuting later this year.
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Tags: 2000s, advertising, digital media, Discovery, franchise, Hasbro, industry, internet, kids, television, TV, tweens
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, TV | 7 Comments »
New Oxford American Dictionary, it's over. No more status updates, no more shared photos - you're unfriended.
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Tags: digital media, Facebook, internet
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The beta version of Copyright Watch was launched recently. The site gives users an overview of national copyright law in various countries across the globe. Each entry on Copyright Watch gives a brief overview of the geographic location and borders of the country, whether the country is a member of supranational organizations like the...
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Tags: copyright, digital media, intellectual property, internet, regulation
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