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By Guest Blogger Anita Sarkeesian<
On January 10th, 2011 I realized that one of my YouTube videos, “Too Many Dicks: Video Games Remix,” was suddenly unavailable. I was a little shocked since I hadn’t even received an email letting me know the remix had been removed, or for what reason. I still don’t know […]
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By Guest Blogger Jenn Ettinger
The Comcast-NBC Universal merger was finalized last week, and its impact on our media environment is likely to be grim. Ultimately, this new giant company will control not just vast amounts content, but how people can access that content via broadcast, cable and the Internet. The result will be fewer voices […]
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By Guest Blogger Cindy Gallop
This weekend a storm blew up in the blogosphere. It began on Friday with Shira Ovide’s piece on WSJ.com, “Addressing the Lack of Women Leading Emerging Tech,” which quoted Rachel Sklar:
“Part of changing the ratio is just changing awareness, so that the next time Techcrunch is planning a Techcrunch Disrupt, […]
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I wrote this article on media literacy for On The Issues Magazine’s Spring ‘10 edition, published today. To explore the theme of this edition, “The Feminist Mind,” contributors look at ways readers can enhance their understanding of feminist and progressive values.
Media Literacy: Piercing Content and Who Controls It
by Jennifer L. Pozner
On The Issues magazine, […]
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By Guest Bogger Lila Kitaeff
At Reel Grrls, we like to keep track of what the Federal Communications Commission is doing and how it affects our lives. When the FCC came to town a couple of years ago to hold a public hearing about media consolidation, a bunch of Reel Grrls participants went down to […]
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Although the first day of #140Conf (the #140 Conference: The State of Now) was too pale-male-stale, one panel stood out as a highlight not only for the diversity of its participants but for the humor, insight and strategic advice participants brought to the conversation.
In Finding Common Ground: Discussion of issues of race and politics in […]
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During his #140Conf solo speech “Why Madison Avenue Should Love Social Media - The Thoughts of a Mad Man Turned Twitterholic,” Hank Wasiak (@hankwasiak on Twitter), who describes himself as an “Author, TV Host, Ad Guy,” made one key point I want to share with you.
I find it is always quite useful to listen […]
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Quickly: I haven’t been able to livetweet the early sessions of the #140 Conference: The State of Now, but if you’re interested in learning about:
– educating about the politics of race online
– social media as real-time news and information-gathering systems
– Interacting with the television audience in Real Time
– and more…
I encourage you to read the […]
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In every competition, there’s a winner and a loser.
The open Internet protections being debated by the Federal Communications Commission right now will determine who wins and who loses in the fight over whether big companies or regular people will control the Internet. I want everyday people to win.
In the fight over who will control the […]
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This past Thursday (March 4), I saw a special, one-night-only nationwide screening of “Half the Sky.” The film, based on a staged event at NYU last fall, is in turn based on the book of the same title by NY Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn. It featured readings […]
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