A group of TV Studies faculty share more impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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Tags: social media, television, Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation, Twitter, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: BitTorrent, books, box office, digital music, e-books, Facebook, gaming, Hollywood, marketing strategies, movie theaters, Netflix, Pandora, politics, porn, social media, Sony, Spotify, tax credits, television, Twitter, Warner Bros.
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? November 4-17
Maureen Ryan calls for a history of lifestyle and its emergence as a dominant form of commercial programming in the US.
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Tags: history of lifestyle, internet, lifestyle media, media history, television, TLC, virality
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past
U.S. paternalism and egoism takes center stage in the third round of presidential debates.
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Tags: foreign policy, politics, presidential debates, television
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When little is off-limits in terms of storytelling fodder and anything can be expected, how can the audience tell when something truly unexpected happens?
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Tags: liveness, narrative, reality, television, wrestling, WWE
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on When Professional Wrestling Gets Real
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Academy Awards, advertising, Amazon, broadband, documentary, file sharing, gaming, mobile technology, music, newspapers, Pandora, Spotify, television, Xbox, YouTube
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CFP for a Special Issue of Journal of Popular Film and Television: “New Directions in Screen Technologies”
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Tags: academic journals, CFP, digital media, film, media technologies, publications, television
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What political investments are written into discursive analysis? What is the relationship between media literacy and aesthetic analysis?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Birmingham School, david bordwell, Discourse, Foucault, Gramsci, John Fiske, Julie D'Acci, Media and Cultural Studies, media education, media literacy, Michele Hilmes, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, semiotics, Stuart Hall, television, television studies, understanding popular culture, understanding television
Posted in Politics, TV | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Amazon, Apple, Disney, e-books, gaming, internet, internet radio, iPad, Iranian cinema, mobile technology, movie theaters, music, Netflix, Pandora, Redbox, Sony, streaming, technology, television, UltraViolet, Universal Music Group, Verizon, video on demand
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Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from CBS.
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Tags: 2012, CBS, Elementary, Fall, Made in Jersey, Partners, Premiere Week, television, TV, Vegas
Posted in Perspectives, TV | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Amazon, Apple, China, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, film festivals, gaming, iTunes, Lionsgate, music, newspapers, Nintendo, piracy, Reddit, Sony, Spotify, streaming, television, Twitter, UltraViolet
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 2-15
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, China, distribution, e-books, Facebook, gaming, internet, music, Pandora, porn, Spotify, Sundance, television, Twitter, UltraViolet, Weinstein Co.
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Aug 19-Sept 1
As DirecTV, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon emerge as players in content distribution, we are seeing evidence of active campaigning by production studios finding new homes for their canceled shows.
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Tags: DirecTV, distribution, Netflix, television, The Killing
Posted in Industry, Industry, TV, TV | 3 Comments »
As a first-time Console-ing Passions Conference attendee, I learned that CP is more than a conference—it is a revival.
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Tags: academia, feminism, television
Posted in Columns, Feminist Media Studies, Report From... | 3 Comments »