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Streaming Across Borders: The Digital Single Market, Web-Based Television and the “Global” Viewer

June 4, 2015
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Streaming Across Borders: The Digital Single Market, Web-Based Television and the “Global” Viewer

Sam Ward looks under the hood of the EU’s “digital single market” initiative and finds wrenches in the machinery—geo-blocking, national-cultural specificity and more.
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Populist or Prestige? Amazon’s Attempts to Brand Pilot Season

August 28, 2014
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Populist or Prestige? Amazon’s Attempts to Brand Pilot Season

Amazon Studios's Pilot Season attempts to frame itself as a “disruption” of both the traditional Hollywood development system and Netflix’s production of prestige television.
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Ex-Pat TV: Technologies of TV Away from Home

October 29, 2012
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Ex-Pat TV: Technologies of TV Away from Home

How to access media from your homeland while abroad.
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 2]

August 13, 2012
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 2]

Devices like Roku that sync existing television sets with the Internet are imperfect technologies.
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]

August 9, 2012
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 1]

I invested in a Roku box to reduce costs by streaming television over the Internet rather than paying for cable. Mission accomplished? Kind of.
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