D. Elizabeth Cohen discusses how teaching with media from YouTube can be a force for literacy and internationalization in South Korea.
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Tags: bilingualism, creative cluster, creative economy, creative industries, cultural studies, Digital Media City, DMC, globalization, ICT, IJCS, information and communication technology, International Journal of Cultural Studies, language, South Korea, urban geography, YouTube
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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 »
Advancing Our Way to the Bottom? My kids' “now” and “just what I wanted” style of viewership encourages them to be tiny, impatient content bullies.
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Tags: cordcutting, kids, kids media, unboxing videos, video on demand, YouTube
Posted in Antenna Kids, Internet, Perspectives, Technology | 1 Comment »
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 »
In this latest post in Antenna's The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who series, Jenna Stoeber discusses the recent "The Night of the Doctor" mini-episode and its impact on canonical knowledge of the series.
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Tags: #savetheday, BBC, Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who, Doctor Who Magazine, fandom, John Hurt, Paul McCann, Steven Moffat, television, The Day of the Doctor, The Night of the Doctor, The War Doctor, YouTube
Posted in Columns, The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who | 1 Comment »
In Antenna's first post in the From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years collaborative series with Sounding Out!, Eleanor Patterson explores how it is that we are still listening to the 1938 radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds" 75 years later, and in what ways its discursive and material...
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Tags: CBS, fandom, Futurama, Longines Symphonette Society, Mercury Theater on the Air, Metacom, old time radio, Orson Welles, radio, Radio Days, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, apps, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Star Trek, Strongbox, Tumblr, Xbox, Xbox One, Yahoo, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Arrested Development, China, copyright, Deanna Durbin, Dreamworks, George Jones, Google Glass, IllumiRoom, Iron Man 3, Netflix, neurogaming, Ray Harryhausen, Steven Soderbergh, The Onion, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Celebrity/Stardom, Celebrity/Stardom, Current Events, Film, Film, Games, Games, Global, Global, Industry, Industry, Internet, Internet, Music, Music, Politics, Politics, Technology, Technology, TV, TV, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Apr 28 – May 11
Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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Tags: A&E, ABC, Academy Awards, Billboard, Cablevision, CBS, copyright, DirecTV, Dish Network, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, independent film, Kickstarter, music, piracy, PlayStation, Sony, television, Time Warner Cable, Viacom, visual effects, YouTube
Posted in What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2
While the issue is ostensibly about the negative portrayal of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and WWE have taken advantage of the situation for publicity.
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Tags: Glenn Beck, politics, race/ethnicity, Tea Party movement, television, TV, wrestling, WWE, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Politics, TV | Comments Off on WWE vs. Glenn Beck: Potshots to Publicity, Controversy to Cash
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 »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, advertising, apps, Blockbuster, digital music, Disney, distribution, Facebook, Google, magazines, MPAA, MySpace, Netflix, newspapers, piracy, Redbox, social media, streaming, tax credits, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Nov 25 – Dec 8
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: 3D, Academy Awards, advertising, Amazon, broadband, documentary, file sharing, gaming, mobile technology, music, newspapers, Pandora, Spotify, television, Xbox, YouTube
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | 1 Comment »
Is there any such thing as local digital media? Looking at the case of local podcasts, Tim Anderson argues that people indeed do, and always have, inscribed the local in their digital media creations.
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Tags: Arbitron, Bob Frantz, bob's boneyard, hampton roads, internet, Kickstarter, local media, local radio, new media, podcast, podcasting, radio, Star Trek, The Mike and Bob Show, virginia beach, YouTube
Posted in Columns, On Radio | Comments Off on On Radio: Up From the Boneyard: Local Media, Its Digital Death and Rebirth [Part 1]