In the first installment of a three-part series on NBC's Hannibal, Allison McCracken and Brian Faucette discuss the show's and network's branding efforts in relation to their appeals to "feminized" audiences.
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Tags: American Horror Story, branding, Bryan Fuller, Fannibals, Gaumont, gender, Hannibal, horror, Katie O'Connell, Legitimation, NBC, Pushing Daisies, quality television, television genre, The Walking Dead, Tumblr, Twitter
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Social media and Twitter-happy stars are changing the way Hindi films are promoted in India. (With this caveat: for English speakers only.) Sripana Ray looks at film prefiguration targeting India's urban middle class.
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Tags: Anushka Sharma, blockbusters, Bombay Velvet, Facebook, film, film promotion, Hindi cinema, Instagram, Piku, social media, Twitter
Posted in From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Hindi Cinema: Coming Soon To A Tweet Near You
The country radio controversy known as "#SaladGate" is a classic case of disruption caused by digital and social media and greater media literacy.
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Tags: #SaladGate, Country Aircheck Weekly, Country Music, gender, Keith Hill, Martina McBride, media industries, media literacy, Miranda Lambert, popular music, radio, radio programming, Radio Stuff Podcast, sexism, social media, Twitter
Posted in Columns, On Radio | 2 Comments »
Bradley Schauer argues that David Letterman’s brilliant late night talk show career would have been a nonstarter in today’s television landscape.
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Tags: CBS, comedy, Conan O'Brien, cult television, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Late night television, Late Show with David Letterman, television, Twitter, viral media, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, TV | 1 Comment »
Piers Britton explores questions of representation and issues of authorship and creative control in "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Tags: Age of Ultron, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., authorship, Black Widow, branding, feminism, Joss Whedon, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, media franchise, synergy, The Avengers, Thor, Twitter
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, held this March 25-29, was in many ways a media event. But what kind of media event was it, and what are the implications of the conference's more public presence?
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Tags: academia, academic conference, analytics, live-tweeting, media event, media studies, open access, SCMS, SCMS15, social media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Tweetdeck, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Report From... | 2 Comments »
The Recording Academy's decision to use Twitter to announce its nominees reinforces social media's role in shaping industrial practice surrounding award shows.
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Tags: Grammy Awards, Nominations, social media, Twitter
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The rhetoric of #gamergate co-opts concerns that women and minorities in the industry have raised for years. It has struck a chord now because the industry is changing.
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Tags: gamergate, gender, online harassment, Twitter, videogames
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Despite differences in style and content in AT&T’s branded entertainment, @summerbreak and The Bell Telephone Hour share promotional goals of consumer education and aspirational culture.
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Tags: @summerbreak, AT&T, Bell, digital media, internet, radio, Rehearsal, social media, television, The Bell Telephone Hour, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Radio, TV | 1 Comment »
On winning GISHWHES (Greatest Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen), which enacts the fannish/digital ethos of playful creativity, experimentation, and community awareness in the world.
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Tags: authorship, fandom, GISHWHES, Misha Collins, participatory culture, social media, transmedia, TV, Twitter
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Perspectives | 7 Comments »
Klout attempts to quantify the ephemeral, subjective concept of online influence through social media analytics. What does such a number mean for how we consider self-presentation online?
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Tags: Influence, Klout, Personal Influence, SCMS, social influence, social media, Twitter
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Internet, Perspectives | Comments Off on #SCMS14: Klout & The ‘Influence’ Economy
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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Tags: authorship, Hell on Wheels, John Wirth, Mark Goffman, Phillip Iscove, showrunners, Sleepy Hollow, social media, television, Twitter
Posted in Showrunners on Twitter | Comments Off on Negotiating Authorship: Showrunners on Twitter VI
Melanie Kohnen reports to Antenna from her recent experience at Digital Day at the New York Television Festival, and discusses how the NYTF is shifting the focus of Digital Day away from second screen apps offering program-related content towards TV network-preferred Twitter.
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Tags: #savebenson, Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, Law & Order: SVU, NBC, NYTVF, Sam Ford, television industry, Twitter, Warren Leight
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Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Tags: Blockbuster, Charter, Deadline, FCC, Marvel, Netflix, RAI, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10
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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Tags: #WOTW75, CBS, connected listening, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, panic broadcast, radio, social media, Twitter, War of the Worlds
Posted in Columns, From Mercury to Mars | Comments Off on #WOTW75 — It’s Time for “War of the Worlds”!