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Twitter ambivalence

24Aug09

I joined Twitter this past Spring, in large part because I saw the great usefulness of the platform at a conference – I was at MIT6 and surrounded by people having backchannel conversations via Twitter. So I joined on the spot, and spent a few months trying to figure out how it fits my own [...]


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Looking for a Comparative Media Scholar

03Aug09

One of the most interesting, exhausting, frustrating, and exciting things you can do as a faculty member is serving on a search committee–interesting to see the broad range of work that emerging scholars are doing, exhausting from the time it takes to read hundreds of files and conduct lengthy interviews, frustrating because in the end [...]


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Listen to me babble

19May09

Just a quick pointer to a podcast: I had the pleasure of recording a podcast with Tim Anderson for his series The Lion’s Share. The series is a great project, opening up the hood on media scholars’ processes of writing, teaching, and thinking about media. Tim & I talked about the impact of the economy [...]


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Trapped in a web of meta-Wikipedia

06May09

I stumbled across this article via Google Alerts discussing the varying practices within Wikipedia. I discovered it because one of the examples it uses is… my Wikipedia entry:
Jason Mittell’s case is similar. His biography concludes with some quotes from a New York Times article in which he defended Wikipedia against the charge that it represented [...]


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Burning up the internets

13Apr09

Just a couple of quick links & promotions before I carve out the time for a real blog post:
I had the pleasure and honor of doing an interview with Henry Jenkins about my new book, Television & American Culture. Today, Henry published the first part of the interview, with a very flattering introduction. I assume [...]


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A New Day

05Nov08

I graduated from college in 1992, a few months before President Clinton’s election. It was in the midst of a recession under Bush #1, and most of my generation felt alienated from the previous 12 years of Reagan/Bush. With Clinton’s win, we were overjoyed with hope and possibility, the feeling of relief that washed over [...]


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Back on the blog

14Sep08

To quote one of my favorite fictional writers, “Hola, amigos. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but I been puttin’ out fires left and right.”
I’m back from an unplanned summer hiatus. I knew this summer would be quite busy, but had no idea the scope of it, and how [...]


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Beautiful Things

26May08

I’m clearly going through another blogging dry spell, attributable to too many tasks and not enough inspiration. I’ve also made a general rule for myself that posts to Just TV should aim for substance, not just links – when I link to something, I try to offer a little insight into it. But I still [...]


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When I was a kid…

04May08

This is not a nostalgic post, nor is it an attempt to judge the present on the standards of the past. And I’m not trying to tell any kids to get off my lawn.
Rather it just struck me that there’s a pretty big shift in the media ecosystem. Actually, this isn’t news to anyone who [...]


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The Wire: Waiting for the end

05Mar08

I’m preparing to head down to Philly tomorrow for the Society for Cinema & Media Studies conference. I’ll try to report a bit from the road, but definitely if you read JustTV and go to SCMS, be sure to say hi. A faithful reader came to my presentation at Pomona on Saturday, and it was [...]


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Off to Claremont

28Feb08

Just a note that I’m heading for a quick cross-country jaunt to present at the Claremont Colleges Media in Transition Conference on Saturday. If you’re in the LA area and want to hear some smart people talk about digital media – and also hear my presentation – I believe the conference is free & open [...]


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Classes, taxes & The Wire

11Feb08

I’ve been swamped lately planning for Spring classes – because of Middlebury’s Winter Term, our classes start late, so tomorrow’s my first day of the Spring, despite the 0 degree temperatures. My two courses are Theories of Popular Culture and Media Technology & Cultural Change – feel free to play along at home with the [...]


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Sigh

04Feb08

I’d planned to do a post-Super Bowl post, commenting on the ads and broadcast of the game. But as a longtime Patriots fan, I found the results of the game too depressing and mystifying to dwell on. Plus the ads were quite underwhelming – my own favorite was the NFL’s ad about Chester Pitts, the [...]


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Back in the Game

06Jan08

Greetings.
Have you ever had a friend send you an email that requires a response, but that comes at a bad time that you can’t find the emotional energy to invest in a reply and must put it off for a bit? And then you let it linger on your to-do list for days that become [...]


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Teaching animation in the YouTube era

29Sep07

My semester is three weeks old, which is 1/4 of the term at Middlebury. So it’s a fair time to reflect on a few things. One of my courses, The Art of Animation, is a first-year seminar, meaning that all 15 students are new to college and the course serves the multiple purposes of covering [...]


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