Twitter serves not only as a platform for high-profile showrunners, but also a space where more nuanced television authorship is negotiated by writer-producers.
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Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI
The Cosmopolitan City and the Carnivalesque in Arcade Fire’s Reflektor Campaign
The promotional campaign for Arcade Fire's Reflektor reflects an increasingly mobile and interconnected experience of popular culture, as well as the persistent significance of local sites of production in popular music-making and promotion.
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#WOTW75 — It’s Time for “War of the Worlds”!
A full rundown of all the information you'll need to know to participate in tonight's #WOTW75 collective listening experiment, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' and the Mercury Theatre's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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The Personal Stakes of Social Media: Showrunners [Off] Twitter V
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When a showrunner chooses to remove themselves from Twitter, they are removing themselves from not only professional opportunity but also a space for self-expression.
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Enough Said? Beasts of the Southern Wild, SharkNado, and Extreme Weather
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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Send in the Clones: Tatiana Maslany vs. The Emmy Awards
BBC America’s campaign to earn the Orphan Black actress a nomination comes at a time when the Academy's traditional logics are being challenged by new spaces for Emmy campaigning.
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What Are You Missing? Feb 3-Feb 16
Ten media news items you might have missed recently.
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More Lively Than Life is Our Motto: Better Living Through Gamification
As we reinvent our lives through gamification, we have to ask ourselves what it means to be alive.
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What Are You Missing? January 6-19
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 2)
A group of TV Studies faculty share more impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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What Are You Missing? November 4-17
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Pinning Postfeminism
The "pins" on display on Pinterest demonstrate postfeminism in their mixed messages regarding contemporary femininity.
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What Are You Missing? May 13-26
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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The Google+ Assignment—Evaluation
Using Google+ for student assignments in a TV genre class would, ideally, link learning with social technologies students are already using, and spur students to consume social media more critically. As with all experiments there was some success and some failure.
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