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 »
The sudden departure of Jian Ghomeshi from Q illustrates that the CBC's once innovative radio division needs to focus on developing new personalities and formats if it is to adapt to a rapidly evolving mediascape.
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Tags: CBC, Ghomeshi, internet, public service media, radio
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Radio, Radio | 1 Comment »
Beyond the negative discourse generated by the recent DashCon convention are the con's more neglected, productive aspects for female and queer youth.
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Tags: convention, cosplay, DashCon, fandom, feminism, internet, social media, Tumblr
Posted in Current Events, Internet, Perspectives | 5 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
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Technology | Comments Off on Liking Facebook
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
Posted in The Aesthetic Turn | 2 Comments »
In this short post I’d like to juxtapose an unlikely pair of films in order to push harder at the taken-for-granted mythologies of extreme weather: SharkNado and Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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Tags: Facebook, fandom, film, gender, independent film, industry, internet, race/ethnicity, social media, television, TV, Twitter
Posted in Perspectives | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 26 – June 9
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Apple, audiences, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, MGM, mobile technology, Nintendo, piracy, porn, Samsung, Sony, Sundance, television, Twitter, video games, video on demand, Warner Bros., Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Jan 20-Feb 2
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
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Maureen Ryan calls for a history of lifestyle and its emergence as a dominant form of commercial programming in the US.
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Tags: history of lifestyle, internet, lifestyle media, media history, television, TLC, virality
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, Apple, Disney, e-books, gaming, internet, internet radio, iPad, Iranian cinema, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, Netflix, Pandora, Redbox, Sony, streaming, technology, television, UltraViolet, Universal Music Group, Verizon, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, China, distribution, e-books, Facebook, gaming, internet, music, Pandora, porn, Spotify, Sundance, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, Weinstein Co.
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Aug 19-Sept 1
