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 »Outsiders After Viral Video
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 27th, 2012
Tweet Originally posted at Hacktivision If YouTube’s massive overhaul – many years in the making – revealed anything, it was our deep investments in the transformative potential of web video. Many observers have criticized the company’s move as selling out, a way to streamline the site’s chaos for the benefit of advertisers. (What else is [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: gender, race, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series, youtube No Comments »’30 Rock’ Charms Producers Guild By Mocking TV — On the Web
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 25th, 2012
Tweet The Producers Guild joined the WGA this past weekend and honored original web programming. As Tubefilter notes, the nominees were usual suspects, a mix of web-grown originals (Ask a Ninja, The Guild), derivative programs (Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock) and web-to-TV success (Web Therapy). 30 Rock‘s Jack Donaghy: Executive Superhero won. Another of its series, [...]
Video Awards: Making a Market?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 20th, 2012
Tweet Originally posted at Hacktivision! Why have awards? Award shows help media creators establish norms and values for audiences. They adjudicate quality, innovation, diversity and help raise awareness. The past two weeks have seen two big awards developments for professional web video: the IAWTV Awards held at CES January 12 and the WGA nominations. What [...]
‘Jack in a Box’ Creator On His WGA Nomination and Writing Jack “Happy”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 18th, 2012
Tweet Originally posted at Tubefilter In last week’s 30 Rock sixth season premiere, Liz “Cranky Sue” Lemon was, all of a sudden, happy! Fans saw her skipping with animated birds and smooching on a mystery man (James Marsden). It was about time. Sitcoms about cranks have two options: cling relentlessly to the joke or allow characters [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘Mythomania’ Strives For Comic Book Stardom
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on January 5th, 2012
Tweet If the 2000s taught filmgoers anything, it was “comics are marketable.” Hollywood mined superhero classics, artier graphic novels like The Watchmen got their due, and even original franchises like Inception were comic book’ed. Popularity opened up a space for edgier fare: Stan Lee and Alan Moore weren’t the only ones to profit. So did Derek Kirk [...]
Web Video Wrap-Up: Recapping Fall As 2012 Approaches
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 19th, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Chuck Tryon for linking! As some of you know I’ve spent the fall writing my dissertation/book and interviewing for academic jobs (professorships and postdocs). Both are going well. But I haven’t blogged much in the last few months, and keeping up with news has been nearly impossible. My last web video news roundup of August [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: TV, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), web series, web video weekly 1 Comment »Web Series Spotlight: ‘Whole Day Down’ Enlists Willie Garson and Patrick Breen for the Artpocalypse
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 2nd, 2011
Tweet Willie and Patrick had an idea — and it was not for a web series. “We should open a gallery…. I have an art history degree. Fuck pilot season. I’m sensing a whole new direction for me….for, ugh, us,” Willie says. “And I can wipe my father-in-law’s face in the excrement of his own [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘It Gets Betterish’ Hates Lady Gaga
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 17th, 2011
Tweet Your friend sets you up on a blind date. So you head over to your local, non-profit, organic, trans-friendly laundromat and pick up a black shirt for the occasion. You meet the mystery man at a unpretentiously chic New York bar only to find out: he’s a Republican! What do you say? “I hope [...]
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 [...]
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