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A Remediation Meditation: The Aca-Media Podcast

February 13, 2013
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A Remediation Meditation: The Aca-Media Podcast

It’s the kind of delicious irony that we broadcast historians relish:  in order to move boldly into the future and expand on the cutting edge of communications technology, Cinema Journal has started a radio show. Aca-Media (officially:  “Cinema Journal Presents Aca-Media”) is a new monthly podcast covering current media studies scholarship, issues in the...
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Ready to Chat?

December 6, 2011
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Ready to Chat?

To minimize the impact of the distance between us when we left graduate school, we committed to a weekly one-hour appointment. Though our weekly chats began as a way to maintain our friendship, they quickly became a way for us to continue to reap the benefits of our supportive work relationship and to navigate...
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A Step Toward Fixing Peer Reviews: Sign Them

September 27, 2011
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A Step Toward Fixing Peer Reviews: Sign Them

There are many proposals to transform institutions of peer review, and perhaps in time some will come to fruition. But there is a simple step that every concerned reviewer could take, right now, to make the process better, fairer, more useful and more human.
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