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Recent Posts
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Video and podcast: “Film Music and Digital Media”
The widespread adoption of computer-based methods of digital recording technology has profoundly changed film scoring practices around the globe, not least in Hollywood.
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Podcast: John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer, “Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law”
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask: What are the ethics and legality in the creation, sharing, and ownership of textual versions?
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CMS alum Joellen Easton on “Playing the News”
From last year’s Online News Association conference.
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Dub, Diasporas & Digital: Vivek Bald
From dub music to South Asian Diasporas, to political theory and a PhD in American Studies, and onto digital media – the colorful professional trajectory of Vivek Bald has led him from his former base in New York to MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
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More Henry Jenkins from SXSW
Henry Jenkins talks about media literacy education and more.
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Henry Jenkins interview from SXSW with the Austin American-Statesman
“Historically newspapers are very poor spaces for serious back-and-forth communication between citizens.”
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Henry Jenkins cited, from corporate policies to religious tweeting
Henry Jenkins has suggested that companies may one day recruit whole groups that form around online games.
