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“The Power to Entertain Yourself: Mobile Video Strikes Out (Again)”
Curator's NoteOn June 2, 2007, the cell phone startup Amp’d Mobile filed for bankruptcy, marking yet another inauspicious milestone in the still-brief history of mobile video. Amp’d had staked its...
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Stars on the Tarmac: 1950s Air Travel & the Global Commodity Intertext
Curator's NoteThe earliest steps toward globally-distributed US television came from an unlikely corner of the nascent postwar television industry. Well before the development of international...
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Flying Classrooms in the Midwest: The MPATI’s Experiment in Regional...
Curator's NoteThe Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction (MPATI) in some ways seems like an odd footnote in the history of American television. Like many educational broadcasters of the...
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Bollywood’s Index: Allusions and Inside Jokes in Om Shanti Om
Curator's NoteBollywood director and choreographer Farah Khan’s 2007 blockbuster “Om Shanti Om” was an instant hit. Even in the US, the movie grossed US$1.7 million in the first three days. By January...
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Where it Belongs: Positioning US dramas on Australian TV
Curator's NoteTelevision identity and promo materials play an important role positioning content for viewers. More than just advertising upcoming attractions, they model the experience of audiencehood...
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Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace
Curator's NoteThe featured video clip is from 2007 when Simply Desi, a 3 and ½ hour block of South Asian programming was officially launched on ImaginAsian TV, an Asian American cable television...
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Could I Hear That on YouCode?
Curator's NoteThe basic idea of this video is to display a series of very short C programs and JavaScript expressions that produce music. This is the third video of this sort by Viznut; the first was...
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Dissecting Distribution: The Potential Role(s) of Media Industry Studies...
Curator's NoteMy “In Focus” essay surveyed some of the scholarly conversations taking place about distribution. Contrary to frequent claims that “distribution is rarely studied,” the seeming paucity of...
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