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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Media News That Ought Not To Surprise You
Netflix set to surpass HBO in USA paid subscriptions You can watch any of their programs any time and any where on any device for about $8 a month. And they let you shotgun their original series from day … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged Bad choices, cable TV, netflix, news, Pew Research, photography, social media, streaming video, twitter
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For my Media Literacy Students: Movie Links
Here are links to the film clips (and more) that we saw in class today: Chapter 8 – Movie Links Everything is a Remix series Movie Trailer Remixes Parody trailers of Cars 2 as a horror movie (with music from … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How are News Corp. and the Fox Group doing post corporate split? Better than expected. Bigger is increasingly not necessarily better. Is there more than one standard of beauty out there? Increasingly, it looks like the answer is “Yes.” British … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6
Tagged body image, British tabloids, broadcast television, cable TV, copyright, News Corp, questions
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Reposting: Girl Talk & Girl Walk Links
Had a request from one of my students to repost this: Here are links to posts talking about mashup artist Gregg Gillis’s performances as Girl Talk, and of the great dance film Girl Walk // All Day. Link Ch. 7 … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 7
Tagged copyri, Girl Talk, legal issues, long tail media, movies, music
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Director Brad Bird Tweets on Gravity
Brad Bird has directed a bunch of movies I really love, including The Incredibles, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and the woefully underappreciated Iron Giant. Over the last few days he has sent out a series of Tweets about what makes Gravity important and … Continue reading
Gravity Shows the Limits of the Bechdel Test
Let me start by saying I’m more than a little bit obsessed with the Bechdel Test. As I wrote back in August when Pacific Rim was released: You all know the Bechdel Test for the role of women in film, right? … Continue reading
Why Gravity is Grabbing So Much Attention
The Sandra Bullock 3-D space movie Gravity has opened to spectacular reviews and record-breaking October box office numbers. And after going to see it last Tuesday in 3-D at my local theater, I have to say that the movie has earned … Continue reading
Using narrative and other techniques in depth reporting
I’m posting here the readings that I’m assigning to my Depth Reporting Students. Why? So they will be easy for my students to find and because these are great things for anyone interested in journalism to read: New York Times: … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 6
Tagged narrative, newspapers, reporting
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Media News Roundup
USB ports replace cigarette lighters in Hyundai cars As if we needed any more proof that mobile media devices are addictive! iPhones are more important than cigarettes! FAA backs letting people use mobile media during take-off and landing And they … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 4, Chapter 9
Tagged books, cable TV, mobile media
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