Content tagged "audiences"
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When to Start Freaking Out: Audience Engagement on Social Media During Disease Outbreaks
Sensationalism, gatekeeping, and media figurations mean audience engagement is not merely a journalistic, revenue‐oriented concern — it is a public health concern too.
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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
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Featured work from Philip Napoli, this Thursday’s speaker
Ahead of Phil Napoli’s talk, we’d like to feature a bit more of his work from the last few years.
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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media”
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, asks how direct access to fans changes what it means to be an artist.
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Podcast: John Hartley, “Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies”
John Hartley’s approach to media and culture, based on evolutionary and complexity studies, recast in terms of user-created content and networked knowledge.
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Video: “Communications Forum: Cities and the Future of Entertainment”
From the Futures of Entertainment 5, the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Podcast: “Cities and the Future of Entertainment”
From the Futures of Entertainment 5, the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms”
What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? How are new technologies transforming our public discourse?
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Podcast: John Ellis, “How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences”
Digital filming has transformed documentary, says John Ellis, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes.
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How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
John Ellis will argue that “Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact.”
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Futures of Entertainment 3
This year’s conference will work to bring together the themes from last year — media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution — with the Consortium’s new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
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Beyond Representational Correctness: Rethinking Criticism of Popular Media
“In this provocative book, Edward Schiappa argues that representational correctness is unproductive, antagonistic to audience research.”
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Podcast: “Viral Media: How’s and Why’s”
the challenges of engaging audiences in non-conventional ways, looking at the status of viral media and the nature of non-traditional marketing campaigns.
