Like their cable predecessors, streaming companies have lured customers in with low rates and promises of a better viewing experience. Now they’re cashing in.
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Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
Pictures and sound, flying through the air to a box in your house? Back in the 1940s, it seemed like a miracle.
Cable providers like Comcast carry Fox News and other channels that feed conspiracy theories and lies into Americans’ homes.
Directors and audiences are becoming more comfortable with male frontal nudity. But what message does it send when almost all of the penises shown aren’t real?
Even though a Crave produced film has become the first ever Canadian documentary to open TIFF, video streaming services like Netflix raises challenges for filmmakers looking for domestic audiences.
Disney recently announced a forthcoming streaming service, leading some to wonder if the company is gearing up for a battle with Netflix. But not all streaming services are locked in a death match.
Terrorist attacks are more than ‘breaking news,’ but the media aren’t taking a comprehensive approach to exploring the underlying issues.
In sports media – as in sports – no one is invincible.
World-class fiber-based internet service is available in less than a quarter of Los Angeles County. By contrast, it’s almost ubiquitous in Stockholm and Paris.
Next year Hulu and Google will introduce their own bundled channel services. Will it spark an online TV revolution or simply lead to more of the same?
Many refer to advances in television storytelling as novelistic or cinematic, but the medium deserves a term of its own: complex TV.
In the beginning, newscasters weren’t even visible to TV news viewers. With Walter Cronkite, everything changed.
On January 11 1999, when Jon Stewart took over as host of The Daily Show from Craig Kilborn, no one could have predicted that, 16 years later, Stewart would become an icon of satire. Under Kilborn, the…
If you were following politics over the last few election cycles, you were most likely getting some of your information from satire. In fact, research has shown that in today’s political climate, satire…
These days you can easily get your landline and mobile, your internet access, and your TV package from a single provider. Whereas consumers previously had four separate contracts, one will now suffice…
In arguably the TV event of 2013 so far, House of Cards – a $100 million, 13-episode TV series starring Kevin Spacey, directed by David Fincher, and commissioned by Netflix, premiered exclusively online…
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature, Penn State
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Professor of Film & Media Culture, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of Southern California
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Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Utah
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Lecturer, School of Journalism, Writing and Media, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Journalism, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UMass Lowell
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
