Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27
Prepare yourself for the #WOTW75 invasion. Find out details here about the "War of the Worlds" worldwide collective listening experiment that is taking place on Wednesday, October 30th.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, Twitter, War of the Worlds
Posted in Columns, From Mercury to Mars | 1 Comment »
The Twitter-Comcast partnership and their See It feature could have interesting consequences for lesser social networks like GetGlue and Viggle.
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Tags: GetGlue, Set It, social TV, Twitter, Viggle
Posted in Industry, TV | Comments Off on Check-in vs. See It: How Twitter’s Latest Moves Impact GetGlue
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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Tags: Damon Lindelof, Lost, Professional Identity, Prometheus, Showrunner, showrunners, social media, television, Twitter
Posted in Showrunners on Twitter | 5 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, blackout, CBS, Esquire Network, FilmOn X, iphone, IPO, SiriusXM, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Sept 2 – Sept 15
To examine the dialogue that results from the Public Shaming tumblr, I focus on responses to racist tweets in the aftermath of the Asiana Airline accident.
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Tags: public shaming, race, Tumblr, Twitter
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on Shame On(line) You: Social Activism, Racist Tweets, and Public Shaming
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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Tags: Facebook, fandom, film, gender, independent film, industry, internet, race/ethnicity, social media, television, TV, Twitter
Posted in Perspectives | 1 Comment »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Arrested Development, Barco's Auro 11.1, China FIlm Group, CNN, Disney, Django Unchained, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, Elysium, Fox News, iTunes, MSNBC, NBC, Netflix, Oriental DreamWorks, Reddit, Roku AppleTV, Sony, Spotify, The Onion, Twitter
Posted in Current Events, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 14-April 27
Reconsidering the delicate work of tweeting about others' scholarship, the necessity of establishing best practices for conference tweeting, and the value of digital labor.
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Tags: Cinema Journal, SCMS, Twitter
Posted in Perspectives | 9 Comments »
This wasn't such an interesting Super Bowl in terms of commercials, but one spot for the Ram truck line stood out to us. Was there an ad that seemed particularly notable to you?
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Tags: advertising, television, TV, Twitter
Posted in Current Events, TV | 3 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: advertising, Apple, audiences, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, Hollywood, independent film, internet, iTunes, MGM, mobile technology, Nintendo, piracy, porn, Samsung, Sony, Sundance, television, Twitter, video games, video on demand, Warner Bros., Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Jan 20-Feb 2
What Are You Missing? links back on 2012.
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Tags: box office, digital media, e-readers, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iTunes, magazines, music, newspapers, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Columns, Report From... | 2 Comments »
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
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