Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, Blu-ray, digital music, distribution, DVD, file sharing, Google, Hollywood, illegal downloads, independent film, internet, MPAA, music, Netflix, newspapers, paywalls, piracy, social media, streaming, television, video games, YouTube
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Despite its reputation as a wonky and bewildering issue, net neutrality actually boils down to a pretty simple principle of openness and nondiscrimination. It’s important to point out, then, that a lot of those who are talking about “net neutrality” these days aren’t actually talking about this.
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Tags: FCC, Google, internet, net neutrality, policy, Verizon
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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
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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: apps, Blockbuster, Digg, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, hyperlinks, independent film, internet, iTunes, magazines, music, Netflix, news media, Ping, print media, Redbox, Reddit, social media, streaming, Summer Media, television, Twitter, video games, viral, VOD, 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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And...we’re back. Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, books, DVD, Facebook, independent film, internet, marketing, movie theaters, movies, music, Netflix, print media, radio, social media, streaming, television, Tumblr, Twitter, video games
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The controversy over the vuvuzelas is a reflection of the larger story here - that there are more ways than ever before to follow and participate in this first World Cup of the social media era.
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Tags: Facebook, internet, social media, television, Twitter, Vuvuzelas, World Cup
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What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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Tags: community broadband, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, GoogleFiber, internet, Ivan Seidenberg, Julius Genachowski, media policy, National Broadband Plan, YouTube
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Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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Tags: A2M2, audience measurement, audiences, film industry, gaming, internet, media policy, media reception, mobile media, music industry, newspapers, Nielsen, publishing, radio, ratings, television
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Music videos are alive and well on the internet, and Miley Cyrus' latest - for her new single,"Can't Be Tamed" - represents a significant rhetorical moment in her star persona (and Disney's pockets).
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Tags: Disney, gender, internet, Miley Cyrus, music
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Are people more open to new ideas when they get their daily news through the Internet or do they tend to use today's historically unparalleled access to support what they already think?
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Tags: Cass Sunstein, Christian fundamentalists, David Brooks, democracy, internet, Mad Max
Posted in Internet, Internet, Perspectives, Politics | 4 Comments »
Oscar-winning deaf actress Marlee Matlin is producing a new reality show, My Deaf Family. It follows the Firl family - father Leslie and mother Bridgetta are both deaf, and they have four children, two of whom are hearing and two of whom are deaf
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Tags: disability, internet, marlee matlin, reality television, web series
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