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
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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
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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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If you've ever clicked once to buy, you've taken part in an activity that has implications across the North American technology sectors for how consumers interact with the books, music, and movies they love on their digital devices.
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Tags: Amazon, e-commerce, mobile media, mobile technology, one click, patents
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This summer's premiere of BBC's new Sherlock raises issues on how one modernizes the Victorian Sherlock Holmes to fit in an alternate 21st century London, as well as shaping a world that a century's worth of Holmes has never impacted.
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Tags: adaptation, fandom, mobile media, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Steven Moffat, The Game
Posted in Current Events, Games, Internet, TV | 5 Comments »
This past week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted the 6th annual Games+Learning+Society conference, and we were there to cover it.
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Tags: academicconference, education, learning, literacy, mobile media, video games
Posted in Columns, Games, Perspectives, Report From... | 5 Comments »
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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