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Bloggers, Journalists, and The Downside of Transparency

by Carlo Scannella — The New School, NYC
March 21, 2009 – 08:47

One of the latest developments happening in both the political blogosphere and journalism today is the newfound attraction to the microblogging service Twitter. ... read more »

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Getting Serious About the Online Part of Research Online

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
March 20, 2009 – 13:09

Today’s Inside Higher Ed features an opinion piece by Sara Kubik, urging academics to “get serious” about online forms of research publication.

While it once made sense to equate print with quality, it’s time to embrace newer forms of communication as valid. If they need academically sound forms of verification and procedures for citation, let’s get to work.

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The Lion's Share, A Podcast Regarding Media Research, is Up!

by Tim Anderson — Old Dominion University
February 27, 2009 – 11:23

Dear Colleagues, Friends and Listeners,

After what has seemed to be months of haggling and work, I am proud to announce that The Lion’s Share first podcast, and interview with Dr. Derek Kompare about his work on CSI, is posted and is ready to be downloaded. ... read more »

Fair Use Held Hostage by ABC-Disney

by Jason Mittell — Middlebury College
February 14, 2009 – 22:34

Cross-posted from Just TV

My textbook, Television and American Culture, has hit the streets (or at least the postal system - order yours now!). ... read more »

Digital Peer Review

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
February 06, 2009 – 14:31

In the last few days, I’ve been running across a bunch of activity around the question of peer review in digital publishing, thinking that’s extremely important to MediaCommons as we begin the project of building our peer-to-peer review network. I’ve also been writing about such questions a lot, in particular in my book project, which I plan to begin posting excerpts from in the coming days. For the moment, however, a few links: ... read more »

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YouTube and Fair Use

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
January 26, 2009 – 10:59

MediaCommons holds among its founding principles not simply a defense of "fair use" as it stands, but a commitment to the expansion of our understanding of fair use for a new scholarly age, believing strongly as we do that unless our understanding of fair use grows, its sphere of influence will of necessity shrink, hemmed in by corporate interests that seek to enforce a culture of permission wherever free borrowing occurs.

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The Media Library in a Post-Disc World

by Jason Mittell — Middlebury College
January 21, 2009 – 21:05

Repost from Just TV

I’ve read a number of articles like this one, speculating on the potential future of the Blu-ray disc as media platform in the wake of online delivery of HD content. ... read more »

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Welcome back!

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
January 20, 2009 – 21:01

We’re all ecstatic right now, as we relaunch MediaCommons on this most historic of days. We’re still working out a few of the bugs — call this a beta release, if that term is still useful — but the migration appears to be complete, and both the MediaCommons blog and In Media Res are open for business. ... read more »

citation systems for new media

by Kari Kraus — University of Maryland
June 19, 2008 – 19:23

One of the things often discussed on this blog is the nature and challenges of the open peer-to-peer system of review that MediaCommons hopes to launch. A recurring question is this: once such a system has been designed and implemented, how do you get scholars to participate in and support it, both senior scholars who may be heavily invested in the current system and junior scholars who are expected to succeed under entrenched guidelines for promotion and tenure?

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This Is Scholarship

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick — Modern Language Association
May 27, 2008 – 04:49

We're taking a bit of a summer hiatus around these parts, partly so that we can catch up on some ongoing projects, and partly so that we can really dive into the major infrastructural overhaul that our recent NEH grant is funding. There's lots going on around us, though, and so I'll use some of this downtime to point toward important work on digital scholarship around the web.

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