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  Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Viscerality and Web 2.0”

  This particular recording is of the opening presentation for the second day, Viscerality and Web 2.0, given by Joshua Green, Research Manager for the Convergence Culture Consortium.

   
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  Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Transmedia Properties”

  The great potential of transmediation is to deepen audience engagement, but this requires greater awareness of the specific benefits of working within different platforms. How are media companies organizing the development of transmedia properties?

   
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  Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “User-Generated Content”

  Are media companies ready for the grassroots creativity they are unleashing?

   
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  Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Television Futures”

  The panelists featured in this recording are Andy Hunter, a Planning Director at GSD&M; Mark Warshaw, founder of FlatWorld Entertainment, Inc; and Josh Bernoff, a vice president at Forrester

   
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  Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Henry Jenkins’ Opening Remarks”

  The first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference.

   
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  Podcast: Sharon Kinsella, “Men Imagining a Girl Revolution”

  Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.

   
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  Science Fiction Author Joe Haldeman Says Write Every Day

  Haldeman and Henry Jenkins discussed the ways in which scientific knowledge plays into science fiction as well as the interaction between science and religion in terms of the sci-fi genre.