Tweet Warning: Jargon ahead! Kept to a minimum, I hope. Every academic discipline has a debate they rehearse over and over again, sometimes over the course of decades. Here in the social sciences and humanities, among scholars of culture, there are two real debates. If you understand them, you can basically read half of everything [...]
Posts Tagged ‘new media’
Revisiting Henry Jenkins and Debates over the Power of the Internet
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 1st, 2010
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 [...]
‘Afterschool’: Online and Off No One Sees Your Face
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 3rd, 2009
Tweet ORIGINAL at SpliceToday. Please excuse the following nerdy statement: I care about how artists represent online video. This is something you need to know to understand why Afterschool, an independent film out in limited release on Oct. 2, is one I respect but do not love. Afterschool, the debut feature of Antonio Campos that [...]
Where and How to Publish Your Videos, Web Series
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 29th, 2009
Tweet UPDATE: For the full interview, click here. I had an email interview with Benny and Rafi Fine recently, the pair that makes up the Fine Brothers, the duo of producers making some of the most popular viral videos on the net, along with a couple of web series. They’re razor-smart, and I hope to [...]
A “New Kid” Delivers Mad Men Parody “Ma Men”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 16th, 2009
Tweet (Click the photo above for video!) The level of humor here is pretty base: the Boston accent is funny. But, hey, it is funny! Bloggers are already raving about New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre’s spoof Ma Men – although it really has little to do with the original. The 36-year old McIntyre [...]
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No Comments »“Adam On The Road” and Other Web Series
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on July 10th, 2009
Tweet You’re forgiven if you don’t watch any made-for-Internet television — also known as: web series, webisodes, web shows, or web originals; they’re still working on the name. Most people don’t. Ever since Lonelygirl15, the faux-vlog on YouTube turned ridiculously over-the-top web series, debuted three years ago, the web show has been consistently on the [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, new media, TV, vlogging, web series, youtube No Comments »Music Video Remakes: Fair Use (!) and History
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 11th, 2009
Tweet So the following post is a truncated version of a paper I’ve written and plan to submit to conferences and publications soon. For an unrevised draft of the paper, click here. For a playful YouTube video I made on this topic, click here. For non-academics and makers of YouTube and other online video the [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: fame, fans, hollywood, meme, new media, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), youtube 3 Comments »Bakhtin and the Carnivalesque
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 25th, 2008
Tweet So last night after an exhausting day — 4 hours of class, a presentation, preparing to teach today, starting a paper on realism — I came home in the mood for reading. I selected a random essay in the Cultural Theory and Popular Culture reader, and I’m so glad I did! Here is my [...]
