Tweet Click for journal article at Continuum As video networks become increasingly successful monetizing audiences — through either advertising or subscription — the question arises: what about everyone else? Most Americans are unaware of the rich ecosystem for video online, from smaller omnibus sites like Blip to minority networks like GLO. Yet as dynamic as the [...]
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Looking Beyond Big Video in ‘Continuum’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 30th, 2012
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No Comments »Introducing: Hacktivision
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 16th, 2012
Tweet I couldn’t think of a more perfect time to announce a new blog about the future of video and television! Within the last month, YouTube’s re-launch has changed the video landscape, Hulu and Netflix announced more original content, and the web series community has been experimenting with award shows. Hacktivision is the brainchild of Josh Braun, a [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: research, social networking, TV, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia) No Comments »Fan Production as Industrial Response in ‘Transformative Works & Cultures’
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 15th, 2011
Tweet Some of you may remember the web series The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else, a satirical show about Rasha, a Lebanese lesbian forced to date men to finance her book project. The series got a lot of coverage last year, from NPR to Jezebel, and a host of lesbian-focused blogs and websites. Super-syndicated across [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: academic, comedy, gay, gender, independent film, race, research, web series No Comments »Mumblecore After the Rise of Web Video and Decline of Digital Realism
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 17th, 2011
Tweet Academic publishing is slow. Everybody knows that. So it should come as no surprise that only now is my article on mumblecore, titled “Joe Swanberg, Intimacy and the Digital Aesthetic,” coming out in the latest issue of Cinema Journal. 2011 a strange time for an article on mumblecore, since it is now “over.” I wrote [...]
Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 5th, 2011
Tweet Hollywood isn’t the only industry with slashers. Some readers of this blog see me as a journalist chronicling web video/series, others as a TV film/critic and a few more as an academic. I’m really all those things, but research pays the bills. In the next year I’ll be cranking out the product of my [...]
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 [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: academic, academy, Digital Culture/Industry, Film, research, TV, web series 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 [...]
Camp 2.0, or YouTube’s Queer Identity
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 7th, 2010
Tweet So I have an article out this month in Communication, Culture and Critique! As is typical of academic publishing, I wrote the bulk of the article years ago, so if it reads very YouTube-circa-2007, that’s why. (I should also say I’ve more or less moved on from the theoretical concerns with identity and performance [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: academy, gay, research, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), youtube 3 Comments »Reading List in Communication, Culture and Industry
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 30th, 2010
Tweet If I blog only sporadically over the next month it’s because I’m locked in a library reading! I’ll be taking what my graduate program calls “comprehensive exams” in October and I have a ridiculously long list of books to get through. It’s an exciting process in the beginning: it’s great to get a solid [...]
Research Update: Thinking About Web Series, Independent Production and Emerging New Media
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 14th, 2010
Tweet Most people who read this blog know me professionally, which is to say, digitally. And, digitally speaking, I talk about my research, but not as rigorously as I do in person. I’m developing my reading list for my exams now, which means I’m doing a lot of big and small preliminary thinking about “who [...]
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