In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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As Seen on Shark Tank: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics
Experts, Dads, and Technology: Gendered Talk About Online Music
New experts are needed to find and listen to music online, and gender is key to what is considered expertise in the field of music and media technology.
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Only Marginally More Unreal: Reconsidering CNN’s Coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370
With its reliance on speculation, dependence on simulation, and occasional swerves into absurdity, CNN's coverage of Malaysia Airlines 370 indexes the incomprehensibility of this disaster, marked by the failures of so many systems that seemed to promise safety, visibility, and order.
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Case Studies in Technological Change
To paraphrase Robert Allen and Douglas Gomery in Film History: Theory and Practice, media depends on machines. Technology contextualizes industrial and stylistic change, reveals and obscures sites of cultural negotiation and meaning, and enables new modes of media production, circulation, and reception. The significance of technology to media studies has only become more acute...
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What Are You Missing? Sept 16-29
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Liveness with a Lag: Temporality & Streaming Television [Part 2]
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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]
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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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On Radio: Strange Bedfellows
Clear Channel has figured out how to profit from college radio. Can college radio survive its embrace?
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DVR vs. Twitter
Is the virtual watercooler making timeshifting impossible? Can you have your DVR and Twitter too?
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Record Store Day, or Vinyl Record Day?
Today is Record Store Day, a music industry event taking place at hundreds of independent record shops internationally. But is this "holiday," intended to bolster record retailers, really better seen as an assertion of vinyl's renewed importance in the industry?
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The Best Remote Control $700 Can Buy: First Impressions of the Apple iPad
I beta tested the first generation of the Apple iPad, so that you don't have to.
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Watching Twitter on TV
The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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What Do You Think? Apple’s new iPad
Apple has a new product. Are the possibilities as endless as the apps in the app store or is it much ado about nothing?
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