Archive For November, 2009

Transmedia as Archontic texts: Multiplicity, Subjectivity, and Social Change

By Xiaochang Li | November 20, 2009

In lieu of a typical weekly round-up, I want to just encourage people to read through the #FOE4 tweets from the Futures of Entertainment conference today and tomorrow. Plenty of great insights that will shift your thinking on everything from transmedia metrics to how puppets are awesome (hint: they’re really awesome). On that front, I’ve [...]

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Weekly round-up [11/06/09]: Post-broadcast TV, piracy from porn to academia, and finally a manual for google wave

By Xiaochang Li | November 6, 2009

A quick scattershot of readings this week. First, two pieces that discuss the shifting role of television in a post-broadcast era: Over at Politico, Michael Calderone and Daniel Libit report that people are turning to Twitter over Cable TV for up-to-the-minute political coverage, especially for election updates. Tim Jones over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation [...]

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Control Issues: YouTube’s new blocking features

By Xiaochang Li | November 5, 2009

TechCrunch reported this morning that YouTube has added two new video-blocking features to their arsenal for sponsoring partners. The first is a button that allows to easy blocking of duplicate content. By selecting it, partners can automatically block other users from uploading another version of the same content. The second is a geo-blocking tool that [...]

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