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Snurb — Monday 14 July 2025 18:59

The Curious Case of Environmental Nationalism in China

Politics | Government | Polarisation | Social Media | IAMCR 2025 | Liveblog | Movies |

The final paper in this session at the IAMCR 2025 conference in Singapore is by Zhangyan Li, Xinrui Wang, and Xingye Yao. Their focus is on reactive environmentalism in China. China has faced several recent environmental challenges, and documentaries have tried to call attention to these issues, but were sometimes banned by the government for ‘defaming China’; this indicates a tension between such discussions of environmental challenges and the state promotion of robust Chinese nationalism.

Environmental nationalism is a concept that seeks to address this, and to shift public debate especially on social media platforms in China. Nationalism can take …

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Snurb — Monday 14 July 2025 18:57

Using Documentaries to Encourage Climate Action by Indian Youth

Politics | IAMCR 2025 | Liveblog | Movies |

The next speaker in this session at the IAMCR 2025 conference in Singapore is Dhyan Singh; his interest is in the use of documentary films to create environmental awareness amongst students in India. Climate change is a severe global challenge, of course, and especially also for vulnerable countries like India; India also has the world’s largest youth population, and addressing this group is therefore also key to addressing climate change itself. Documentary films can play an important role here.

How do such films impact on students’ emotions and encourage them to take action, then? This study worked with 63 students …

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Snurb — Saturday 20 October 2012 20:15

Twitter and Fandom in the Case of The Hunger Games

Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2012 | Movies |

My colleagues and I have a paper in the next session at AoIR 2012, too, but we start with Rachel Magee, whose interest is in fandom on Twitter around the recent movie The Hunger Games. She and her colleagues developed the Twitter Zombie system, which draws on the Twitter search API to track user and hashtag activity around he movie. The movie is based on a popular novel for teen audiences, and the film itself was also very successful, with substantial fan activities around it.

In anticipation of the movie, there was significant Twitter activity - Rachel and …

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Snurb — Wednesday 12 October 2011 08:10

Creating and Marketing Transmedia Stories

Produsage Communities | Internet Technologies | Creative Industries | AoIR 2011 | Movies | Television |

Seattle.
The first keynote at AoIR 2011 is by Mike Monello (who was also the producer of the Blair Witch Project). He begins by noting the importance of team collaboration, and says that Blair Witch emerged as a completely organic process involving its principal creators. The filmmakers wanted the dialogue to be completely improvised, and so created a deep mythology for the Blair Witch story; some of the (very realistic) clips recorded for the film were then broadcast on TV, and audiences were encouraged to go to the online community Split Screen to discuss whether what they’d seen was …

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Snurb — Thursday 21 October 2010 20:40

Current Trends across the Entertainment Industries

Internet Technologies | AoIR 2010 | Creative Industries | Music | Movies |

Gothenburg.
The next AoIR 2010 session I’m in is a panel on sustainable entertainment, which involves Wenche Nag from the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, Mia Consalvo, Jean Burgess, Patrick Wikström, and Martin Thörnkvist. Patrick begins by noting the transformations in the music industry, for example, where the largest company now no longer is a record label but a live music company. iTunes and similar models are also making a significant impact, of course. Much of this is now based on artist/audience relationships that are based on passion and substantial emotional investment – which works for some entertainment industries, of course …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 September 2009 21:53

The Homemade Crossover Genre of Fan Videos

Produsers and Produsage | Transforming Audiences 2009 | Movies | Television |

London.


The next speaker at Transforming Audiences is Sebastien Francois, whose interest is in the fan videos deliberately combining material from various movies and television shows which are posted to spaces like YouTube; Sebastien describes this as 'homemade crossover'. Such videos are created only by a relatively small number of fans, of course, but may provide useful insights into active audiences.

Sebastien has studied such videos on YouTube using the ContextMiner analysis tool to examine the titles, descriptions, and other identifying characteristics of such videos. Such videos are often relatively short, with creators coming from a wide variety of countries; they exist at the intersection of vidding (adding popular music to edits of TV shows) and trailer mash-ups (parodies adding the soundtrack of movie trailers to collages of other movie or television material). Homemade crossover videos as Sebastien defines them do not necessarily use popular music, and are not necessarily parodic in intent - but instead often touch on the narratives within the original material.

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Snurb — Friday 10 July 2009 13:07

The Changing Role of Talent Agencies as Global Entertainment Intermediaries

ANZCA 2009 | Creative Industries | Movies | Television |

Brisbane.


Susan Ward is the next ANZCA 2009 speaker, and focusses on talent agencies - she begins by distinguishing between internationalisation (trans-border flows of goods and services) and globalisation (the creation of global audiences, and global forms of organisation and a global functional integration of processes). This is visible especially in the context of international trade fairs, which are used to conduct business transactions, disseminate market intelligence, facilitate networking, promote an awareness of industry innovations, establish the identities of participants,and promote common assumptions and a common business culture.

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Snurb — Thursday 14 May 2009 18:09

Movie Filesharing as a New Distribution Mechanism

Intellectual Property | Filesharing | COST298 2009 | Movies |

Copenhagen.


Next at COST298 is Rita Espanha, who shifts our interest to the effects of peer-to-peer filesharing of movies on cinema in Portugal. She begins by taking us through the key features of European cinema (as opposed to Hollywood) - the different content and narrative style, the funding support by national governments and related institutions, and the comparatively more limited distribution.

There are a number of different consumer types here, too - traditional consumers (mainstream TV channels, regular cinema goers), mainstream consumers (mainstream channels, less frequent cinema goers), and innovative (networked) consumers (also using other media, and especially the Internet, to access cinema content).

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Snurb — Monday 30 April 2007 00:08

Web2.0 Critiques

Politics | Produsage Communities | Produsers and Produsage | Filesharing | MiT5 2007 | New Media Arts | Music | Movies |

Boston.
(I'm afraid I accidentally deleted a couple of comments here last night - please repost them if you can!)

It's the last day of MiT5, and we're in the first session of the day. Mary Madden from the Pew Center is the first speaker, on Socially-Driven Music Sharing and the Adoption of Participatory Media Applications. She notes that the term Web2.0 is imperfect but convenient for summarising many of the current developments in the online world. Tom O'Reilly defines Web2.0 as harnessing social effects; it may not be a revolution, but there have been important changes. We now need to think critically about how and why it emerged as a major force in the first place.

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Snurb — Sunday 29 April 2007 10:48

Tools for New Media Literacies

Social Software in Higher Education (Carrick Institute) | MiT5 2007 | New Media Arts | Music | Movies | Teaching with Technology |

Boston.
The last MiT5 plenary session for today is on Learning through Remixing, and Henry Jenkins introduces it through examples of remixing as pedagogical practice in earlier times. This can perhaps be described as a process of taking culture apart and putting it together again, in order to better understand how it works.

The first speaker on the panel is Erik Blankinship, of Media Modifications, who build tools for exposing and enhancing the structure of media in order to make them more understandable to all (and he demonstrates this now by using a few redacted clips from Star Trek: TNG). Some of these which will also be online soon at adapt.tv, and another example for this is showing clips from The Fellowship of the Ring (the movie) next to the text of The Fellowship of the Ring (the book), and even a comparison of the Zeffirelli and Luhrman versions of Romeo & Juliet with the original Shakespeare text (which allows the viewer to compare how differently the two directors interpreted the text, and even to created hybrid versions with the 1996 Juliet and the 1968 Romeo interacting with one another). Fascinating stuff!

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