Tweet Legacies are living things. As the world collectively remembers Steve Jobs, many commentators are already starting to reflect on his impact on global technology and culture. It will take years to fully comprehend what effect Jobs had on the world, and what it all meant. Needless to say, he had an impact. When Jobs passed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Digital Culture/Industry’
‘Tron: Legacy’ and the Death of the Digital Utopia
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 21st, 2010
Tweet Tron: Legacy’s Flynns are ever-rare champions of the digital utopia of openness and diversity in the face of corporate and government control. Posted at SpliceToday. Comment there! Brainy blockbusters are rare. For every Inception there is a Sorcerer’s Apprentice. The most we hope for in our big-budget spectacles is some decent writing and a [...]
YouTube and Next New Networks: A Real Web Video Market?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 20th, 2010
Tweet UPDATE: YouTube has bought Next New Networks for an estimated $50 million. ORIGINAL: As recapped in my weekly news roundup of the web video market, the New York Times shocked the web series world with a report that Google-owned YouTube was in talks to buy Next New Networks, an independent web video studio and [...]
Reading List: Media Industries, History and Convergence (Radio/TV/Film/Internet)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 16th, 2010
Tweet I’m currently writing the proposal for my dissertation, (very) tentatively titled: “Selling Independent New Media: Web Series and the Industry in a Time of Change.” (For those not in the academy, don’t ask what a proposal is: it’s a boring answer). As a graduate student, one of your constant anxieties is missing something: not [...]
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2 Comments »An Analog Reading List for the Digital Practitioner
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 12th, 2010
Tweet As you may know, I’m doing some heavy reading over the next few weeks, and they more I read, the more I realize there’s a lot of academic books on media history and theory that could benefit practitioners in the digital economy; books a lot people might pass over on Amazon for not directly [...]
Paying for Content: The Context and Consequences of the Next Wave in New Media
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 6th, 2010
Tweet I’m not a cynic by nature, but the times may be changing and perhaps not for the better. I’d been planning to write this post for a while, and the recent news of Google’s talks with Verizon for the company to pay for better bandwidth gave new texture and urgency to the debate over [...]
What Makes a Successful Web Series?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 19th, 2010
Tweet Thanks to NATPE for linking! How many articles and blog posts have been written giving advice on how to create a successful web series? For lack of space, I won’t bother linking to the dozens of posts on useful sites like Tubefilter and the Web Series Network, both of which publish great advice from [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series, youtube 8 Comments »The Old Internet Is New Again: ‘If I Can Dream’ and Chatroulette
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 11th, 2010
Tweet Original at SpliceToday Does anyone remember Jennifer Ringley and Sean Patrick? Over 10 years ago, tens of thousands of Americans brought The Truman Show to reality by broadcasting themselves live for anyone to see. Webcams, people forget (especially people my age), were the original web videos. JenniCam and Sean Patrick Live drew thousands of [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, live, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), vlogging, web series 6 Comments »FAME: Kade Style (Anniversary Cut!)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 26th, 2010
Tweet Posted at Gawker; Ronebreak; Crabby; Philebrity; Arthur Kade (with commentary) It’s been one year since Arthur Kade, ex-financier turned cult Philadelphia personality, embarked on his journey to fame! How’s he doing? Certainly, most of my friends still have no clue who he is, but Kade himself says he’s known on every continent on Earth, [...]
“Real Girls” Are More Diverse, Less Frivolous
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 22nd, 2010
Tweet Thanks to Jezebel for linking! Last week, I wrote about how influential Sex and the City had been to various web series creators. Along those lines, I asked the creative team behind a new (gay) series about women, The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else, to talk about how they developed their show and [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, gay, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series 6 Comments »
