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Category: Internet Studies

Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies, Internet Studies

January 19, 2013

CBS, Hawaii Five-O and Content Interactivity

CBS is no newcomer when it comes to experimenting with giving their audience a more interactive experience with their television programming. As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog, the television network in the past had offered their audience a chance to engage in social interactivity while watching their favorite shows online. The network had structured…
Audience/Reception Studies, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

December 15, 2012

Virtual World Television: The Blog

As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog (such as here and here), I’ve undertaken a new project with producer Pooky Amsterdam to look into the phenomenon of virtual world television. As part of this study, I’ve interviewed over two dozen producers from the virtual world Second Life. Pooky and I have been gathering information about their…
Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Internet Studies

October 28, 2012

What’s the Impact of Political Memes?

This political season has been fraught with them: political memes. Pictures and videos combined with political messages to comment on and/or parody some aspect of the various campaigns engulfing various parts of the nation. From “binders full of women” to “the 47%”, people have been using social media and the phenomenon of Internet memes to…