Tuesday Links
Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching over the last couple of days:
- David Leonhardt of The New York Times attributes the ongoing recession to a lack of consumer spending.
- Greg Sandoval of CNET asks whether Netflix is killing DVDs in the same way that Apple “killed” floppy discs.
- Tama Leaver links to a creative artwork that comments on the issues of digital rights.
- Anthony Kaufman mentions the release of the second edition of Ian Scott’s American Politics in Hollywood Film and asks whether Hollywood films inevitably reinforce the mainstream political establishment (and like Kaufman, I am curious to read the book).
- Kaufman also discusses (and criticizes) the proposed anti-piracy “Protect I.P. Act.” In fact, over 90 law professors have written Congress to state that the bill, as it is written, is unconstitutional. Kaufman learned about the issue from the filmmakers behind the documentary Citizen 3.0.
- Henry Jenkins interviews Brian David Johnson, author of Screen Future: The Future of Entertainment Computing and the Devices We Love. Johnson is a futurist at Intel Corporation and is interested in “reinventing television.”
- NCR may sell its Blockbuster kiosks.
- Chris Cagle calls attention to a call for papers from the excellent journal, The Velvet Light Trap, on the issue of media materiality.
Andrea C. Said,
July 21, 2011 @ 6:19 am
Thanks for highlighting our CFP! (I’m a current coordinating editor at VELVET LIGHT TRAP and a longtime reader of this blog.)
Chuck Said,
July 21, 2011 @ 10:49 am
Glad to do it. I’ve been thinking about the issues of media and materiality quite a bit over the last couple of years, so it looks like a fascinating issue.