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CFP: Media in Transition 6

2008-08-19 15:30:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
Media in Transition 6 stone and papyrus, storage and transmission International Conference April 24-26, 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology CALL FOR PAPERS In his seminal essay "The Bias of Communication" Harold Innis distinguishes between time-based and space-based media. Time-based media such as stone or clay, Innis agues, can be...
 
Tags: media, media creators, transition, transmission, reach transmission speeds, culture, print culture, profoundly challenge efforts, invite papers
 
 
 
 
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800 Channels: Media-Options As A Community Hinderance

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2008-03-27 03:05:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Media becomes more diverse, it also means that individually we are exposed to a more diverse collection of entertainment One of the goals of entertainment is to escape, relax, and so forth. But another reason we watch CNN, read sports illustrated, get the local paper, read Oprah's recommended reading, and watch certain shows is because it is...
 
Tags: media, media-options, entertainment media, entertainment, community, media outlets, entertainment weekly, niche entertainment media, hinders community
 
 
 
 
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The Media Foists Its Own View Of Middle America On Disney

2008-06-26 19:55:41 by poland in The Hot Blog
 
...media is now having a field day - four links on the cover of MCN and more to come, I'm sure - taking the position that Wall-E's portrayal of a future STORY SPOILER WARNING in which earth has been decimated, the survivors live on corporately-controlled ships in which they are kept satisfied and simple-minded so there are no rebellious thoughts...
 
Tags: media, people, inherently lazy people, media universe, fat people, wall-e, media friends, wall-e sounds, fat
 
 
 
 
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More Media History

2007-10-16 11:03:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...media historians do, so it makes sense that Q&As should proceed with examples, counterexamples, and those stubborn bits of evidence that beg explanation. At the conference, a surprisingly high number of questions were of this nature (what about Cinerama? What about Shirley Temple's star image?) surprising at least to someone from a...
 
Tags: history, media, television history, media historians, texts appearanceprior appearance, texts, contemporary mass media, paper, media texts
 
 
 
 
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Announcing: Dads In Media Blog-a-thon

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2008-05-13 02:36:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...media, movies, music, television, and art, attempt to capture life, father's appear in all forms of media and entertainment With this is mind I will be hosting the "Dads in Media Blog-a-thon." June 12th-June 15th I encourage anyone interested in participating to write their own blog-a-post about Dads in Media. Post your post, e-mail me and...
 
Tags: media blog-a-thon, blog-a-thon, media, june 15th marks, june, post, blog-a-post, central post, day
 
 
 
 
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What Media Tie-In Book Would You Recommend to Naysayers?

2008-08-23 01:15:02 by John in SF Signal
 
...media tie-in novels : One of the things I realized at GenCon last week is that on some level, I'm prejudiced. That there's a part of me that thinks of gaming fiction ( Forgotten Realms , etc.) and other media tie-ins as somehow lesser than original fiction like my own I'm not happy with that realization. I'm not sure where that prejudice came...
 
Tags: media tie-in books, books, tie-ins, fiction, original fiction, prejudice, media tie-in novels, world, original world
 
 
 
 
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Haunted Media

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2007-10-16 14:45:00 by HuntingtonBeachLibrary in Film at HBPL
...Media Department has many other horror films to offer. Whether your taste runs to the classics like the Hammer Films Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave or to more contemporary horror treats like Sleepy Hollow , The Grudge or 1408. All can be found in our Media department Although to find your favorite...
 
Tags: horror films, horror, media, contemporary horror treats, favorite horror films, media items, scary film, sale, spook-tacular sale
 
 
 
 
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Site News: Wild Bluff Media Gets A New Look

2008-05-05 18:36:12 by Matt in Wild Bluff Media : Entertainment Examined
 
...Media just got a brand new look over the weekend in an effort to give you, our greatly appreciated readers, a cleaner, easier, and hopefully better experience in your entertainment news adventures. Check out the new site design The biggest change of all is our homepage which will now more prominently feature different areas of entertainment...
 
Tags: wild bluff media, site design, entertainment, design, entertainment news adventures, dark black background, april site statistics, easy access, merry christmas
 
 
 
 
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Dads in Media Blog-a-thon

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2008-06-12 04:05:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Media Blog-a-thon. (Previously announced here Over the next four days I encourage you to participate in the blog-a-thon celebrating the centennial of Father's Day, Fatherhood, and Media through your participation Here's how to participate Write I encourage anyone and everyone to write a post on anything relating to the topic of Dads in...
 
Tags: media blog-a-thon, blog-a-thon, media, post, father roles, father, fictional father, dads, couple days
 
 
 
 
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Poland Vents on Old Media vs New Media

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2008-02-13 12:31:56 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...media side , usually involving swipes at the LAT and NYT Hollywood beat reporters and other rivals on the Internet While Poland makes some good points, I often feel that there's an element of envy involved in these outpourings. I agree with him that the LAT should let Claudia Eller loose--but the reasons why they wanted to defang her still...
 
Tags: media, poland, david poland, claudia eller loose, movie city news, film geek insider, conventional day job, gawker media, fave milieu