Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
The Law Librarian Blog beats us to the punch, welcoming Grant McCracken’s new book Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation.
Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
If virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers.
Podcast: Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Googlization of Everything”
Siva Vaidhyanathan suggests ways we might live better with Google once we see it as a mere company rather than as a force for good in the world.
Dis/Locating Audience: Transnational Media Flows and the Online Circulation of East Asian Television Drama
In examining the flourishing online fandom around the circulation of East Asian television drama, however, the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient.
Nostalgia Without Memory: Iranian-Americans, Cultural Programming, and Internet Television
This thesis explores the role of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in repairing the fractured post-revolution Iranian culture.
Imaginaries of the Asian Modern
Within East Asia, a booming TV program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry.
