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"Many of the most popular, highest-rated shows hold relatively little appeal if seen through a video-on-demand streaming service. The converse is also true; some of the most successful streaming shows (like NBC’s Community) struggle to find a corresponding audience on broadcast television."
for #mnm2012 - my tumblr for research on My Little Pony: http://t.co/LUkqNHO5
RT @BenRobertson: @shaviro's problem with OUP, in ballpark of what I discussed at #mnm2012 MT More on the work-for-hire saga: http://t.c ...
Speculations ARG is (collaborators hope) an example of how new media can help us educate and envision different futures #mnm2012
Hayles: precarious and inhumane labor practices on wall st. according to anthropologies (Marxism's "production studies"?) #mnm2012
Kate Hayles kicking ass: only sweeping cultural change (not regulation) can rein in finance & new media can take us there. #mnm2012
RT @michacardenas: #mnm2012 ken wark calls for new marxism to be low theory, cites @jhalberstam but also larger trend including stuart hall
Wark (building on a different pres. today): remember that #SOPA is being fought out between different factions of the ruling class #mnm2012
preach! 75% yes MT @michacardenas does #mnm2012 focus center economics & technology while sidelining race/gender/sexuality/ability?
ricardo dominguez counters Galloway digital/not opposition with being "more than 1 and less than 2" >1 + <2 (hybrid?) #mnm2012
striking juxtaposition of casual farm games (white midwestern abstraction) and material realities of farming by Alenda Chang #mnm2012
#mnm2012 @chouxsalad: gamification = making us believe we're grasshoppers (play) when actually we're still ants (work) in Aesop's terms
wanted to share CFP for TWC's special issue on Fandom & Labor with #mnm2012 http://t.co/WbQ4ZIsX hard copies up front!
now emerging academics have to produce not just work but the criteria by which the work is judged (justification) - @BenRobertson #mnm2012
#mnm2012 @BenRobertson on an ambivalence of #dh rhetorics: new media transforms what scholarship is AND it counts as traditional scholarship
Rey Chow deftly links talks on axis of the residual - rubbish, personal data, kids - that capital is now struggling to put to work. #mnm2012
fascinating discussion of getglue as a rationalization and capture of TV engagement by @chutry this early morning at #mnm2012
my Prezi for the talk I just gave on Queer Labor? + My Little Pony http://t.co/iOfCz5hR (I'll try to blog notes too) #mcm2012
um wow. RT @TwBirthday: @j_l_r Happy 5th TwBirthday! You've been around since 19 January 2007! http://t.co/AD3qwgqE
I'm joining the strike (http://t.co/aNbNdNLA): Jan 18th! All-out blackout to stop #SOPA #PIPA. http://t.co/Y9pRFYiN
RT @ShannonOHern: #PARIAHmovie was phenomenal! Poignant and heartbreaking, yet tremendously hopeful. Go see it. http://t.co/VPg50Yhe
me too! leaving tomorrow! MT @michacardenas: I'm speaking at Duke next week in the Marxism and New Media conference http://t.co/xcbqD5pG
RT @michacardenas: The Place of the Personal in Interdisciplinary Scholarship [my new hastac blog post on #feminist #art & #theory] http ...
writing my 1st "multicultural statement" - it's gratifying to be folding all the past volunteer experience cut from CV back into a job app.
I think this is meant to be a parody, but there's a lot to it! "The most fantastic element of the show is not that ponies can talk or that dragons exist; it is the illusion that an egalitarian society can be maintained among groups with massive biologically inherent gaps in ability and economic utility."
The answer is YES. I must agree, although it's a necessarily ambivalent position coming from AfterEllen. [via OTW_news]
Interesting to see people talking about music videos! Soul Clap f/ Charles Levine- 'Lonely C' is one of the selections - a fan submission for a contest.
M: "I feel like we're watching 'Hark! A Vagrant!'" http://t.co/dSFUGAZA #downton #ordowntown #masterpiecefanfic #edwardiansoap
I was skeptical, but turns out Downto(w)n Abbey is as addictive as they say. Soapy! Started this weekend, averaging 1 ep per 12 hours.
working tumblr for My Little Pony project (Duke/Yale conference presentations + book conclusion?) http://t.co/LUkqNHO5 thx @michacardenas :)