While other countries are considering changes to adapt their media laws for convergence, Australia has been a world leader in commissioning major studies that address these challenges head on.
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Tags: Australia, classification, convergence, government, internet, Media, media policy, regulation, television
Posted in Global, Industry, Internet, Perspectives | Comments Off on Convergent Media Policy: The Australian Case
Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Tags: Arbitron, Bob Frantz, bob's boneyard, hampton roads, internet, Kickstarter, local media, local radio, new media, podcast, podcasting, radio, Star Trek, The Mike and Bob Show, virginia beach, YouTube
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 1]
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, Apple, digital distribution, distribution, Dreamworks, DVDs, e-books, Google, Hollywood, independent bookstores, independent film, internet, LGBTQ, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, Spotify, UltraViolet, video games, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 1-14
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
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 18-31
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, Apple, blogs, copright, DVDs, e-readers, Facebook, gaming, gender, internet, Iranian cinema, Lionsgate, mobile media, MPAA, patents, piracy, television, UltraViolet, United Kingdom, Wal-mart, Weinstein Co., Yahoo
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 4-17
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, books, box office, censorship, digital music, Disney, distribution, DVD, Facebook, gaming, Google, Hollywood, internet, Kickstarter, Liosgate, MGM, Netflix, piracy, television, video on demand
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, books, broadband, digital music, distribution, e-books, e-readers, Google, independent, independent film, internet, iTunes, Lionsgate, movie theaters, music, Nintendo, social media, streaming, Sundance, television, Twitter, video games, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? January 15-28
Broadcast over Jersey City’s listener-supported radio station WFMU, The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling is what happens when many of commercial radio’s most noxious elements—bizarre callers, comedy routines, running gags, and irascible hosts—transform and coalesce into a singularly entertaining program perfectly calibrated for cult attraction.
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Tags: Best Show, comedy, internet, radio, WFMU
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Your #1 source for Lions Gate news returns with ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, Apple, Blockbuster, books, box office, digital music, DVD, e-books, e-readers, Facebook, file sharing, Google, independent film, internet, internet freedom, labor, Lionsgate, music, Netflix, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, United Kingdom, video games, Warner Bros.
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? January 1-14
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, awards, books, e-books, Facebook, Hollywood, independent film, internet, Lionsgate, music, piracy, porn, Spoti, Sundance, television, UltraViolet, video games, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 27-Dec 10
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, AOL, AT&T, cloud services, Facebook, film, film festivals, Google, Hollywood, internet, iTunes, movie theaters, music, Netflix, newspapers, social media, Sony, Spotify, television, Tribune Co., Twitter, United Kingdom, video games, video on demand
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 13-26
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: Academy Awards, digital music, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, internet, Iranian cinema, mobile media, Netflix, Pandora, Skype, social media, Spotify, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 9-22
Ben Aslinger, Sean Duncan, and Liz Ellcessor provide some thoughts on IR12, the 12th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference, which was held in Seattle, October 10-13.
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Tags: academia, Association of Internet Researchers, conference, gender/representation, internet, IR12, recap
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Hollywood, independent, internet, iTunes, magazines, marketing, movie theaters, MPAA, music, Netflix, piracy, ratings, social media, Spotify, television, Tumblr, Twitter, video games, video on demand
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