Archive For The “C3 blog” Category

Media In Transition 6: Global Media panel recap

By Xiaochang Li | April 24, 2009

[Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium blog] This weekend, as some of you might know, is the 6th Media in Transition conference here at MIT. The theme this year is “Stone and Papyrus, Storage and Transmission” and centers on question around the preservation, circulation, and migration of media between places, formats, platforms, and text [...]

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The Value of “Free” Content: Youtube Silences Music Videos in the UK after Licensing Dispute

By Xiaochang Li | March 9, 2009

[Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium blog] Apologies for the strange, late cross-post from C3. With the recent travel schedule, organization has escaped me. This post was originally written early last week, but somehow didn’t end up here. I should be returning to a more steady blogging schedule now that I’m back in Cambridge. [...]

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Skittles, Spreadability, and the question of social media authorship

By Xiaochang Li | March 2, 2009

This was later cross-posted to the Convergence Culture Consortium blog A funny thing happened on my way to check out the new Skittles homepage-as-social-media-experiment that’s been generating all sorts of attention over my twitter feed. I went to the homepage, and in my sleep deprived idiocy, entered today’s date in their terms of service agreement [...]

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Branding in Bahía: Spreadable media made (literally) material

By Xiaochang Li | February 27, 2009

Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium blog. For details about how Carnival works in Bahia, please refer to Ana Domb’s post. It’s fitting that we’re closing in on the end of our Spreadable Media white paper series on the blog just as Ana and I begin to discuss our experiences and research in Brazil, [...]

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Miro 2.0: aggregating decentralized video

By Xiaochang Li | February 12, 2009

Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium: On Tuesday, the Participatory Culture Foundation launched version 2.0 of their non-profit, open-source internet video player, Miro. A detailed features list can be found at the Miro site and Ars Technica has a fairly thorough breakdown of the pros and cons of the interface. What is immediately striking [...]

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Surplus Global Audiences and How to Court a Community: Insight from Dramafever.com

By Xiaochang Li | February 4, 2009

Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium Last week I introduced Dramafever, a new content-distribution and community platform dedicated to bringing Asian entertainment content to the US (currently in closed beta) that is posing some interesting questions about engaging niche audiences in an increasingly global media landscape. This week, I had a chance to sit [...]

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Global Media and Niche Audiences: Introducing Dramafever.com

By Xiaochang Li | January 28, 2009

Originally written for the Convergence Culture Consortium On of the fascinating results of the increasing speed and accessibility of the present media landscape is that as the global reach of media content broadens, companies are becoming aware of increasingly fragmented, niched, and narrow audience segments. Such as the case with a new online VOD platform, [...]

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