straight to the top of the annual review dossier
03.03.2026 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0straight to the top of the annual review dossier
03.03.2026 17:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Technically, the attackers are affected by the attacks!"
28.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Everybody on the internet be like
27.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm just going to bravely state it: We've already overcooked the meaning of "slop" by injecting it into every goddamn possible sentence.
27.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Subscribe to NEWS OVER NOISE, one of the very few good podcasts, right here
27.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fresh ep of NEWS OVER NOISE is live. We talk to @juddlegum.bsky.social about the rise of Kalshi and Polymarket and their influence of news coverage.
27.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The Pitt is good, and I'm glad it ends every episode with Noah Wyle looking directly into the camera to remind me I'm a good guy
23.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm sorry, it's very funny to me that a compromised info merchant is so far in the tank for the NFL that he's farming engagement off this halftime show at this moment
09.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
woke is back
09.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
introducing the RTV students to an icon today
09.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Hey guys lol" after the last 16 months is about as vacant and cynical as you can get, which is impressive from them
05.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dying that the four coaches are three Antetokounmpo brothers...and Mookie Betts.
03.02.2026 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Two decent ways to go out, IMO!
03.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're somehow nearly six years on from when films like The Invisible Man, The Hunt, and Onward were punted to premium video-on-demand with some interesting promo strategies. LMK if you need access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the distribution of many films since 2020, but none more so than films that were in theaters when lockdowns closed multiplexes. To compensate for the collapsed theatrical window, studios quickly shifted films like Emma, The Hunt, and The Invisible Man to premium video-on-demand (or PVOD) rentals and fashioned ad-hoc promotional campaigns accentuating the surprise of their sudden digital availability. The centerpiece of these studio efforts was the ‘Watch Party’, which asked people to rent and watch the films ‘together’ with synchronized start times and real-time Twitter conversations. Studios also enlisted celebrity participants, including filmmakers who shared behind-the-scenes insights and digital influencers who delivered reactionary riffs on the films. Close analysis of promotional materials (e.g. social media posts, videos, key art) reveals that rather than replicating the theatrical viewing environment, Watch Parties instead imitated Social TV initiatives of the 2010s, including live-tweeted chatter, targeted hashtags, celebrity contributions, and canned production anecdotes. Although Watch Parties waned as the pandemic brought new distribution challenges, their emergence demonstrates Hollywood’s continued interest in constructing shared, limited-time, and now multi-screen experiences. This article identifies Watch Parties as ephemeral media events that are part of the lineage of ritualistic media events and nine-figure marketing plans but that also leverage the surprise of unique distribution circumstances to create short-lived bursts of virality and immediacy. The framework provides a new perspective on digital distribution and media events amid the increased industry and consumer preoccupation with on-demand streaming portals.
Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.
03.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
I use the National Film Registry a lot in my lower-division film courses. Fun to see them embrace video a bit more. Today's (shutdown-delayed) announcement of the 2025 honorees is great: www.loc.gov/item/video-1...
29.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every company wants to be the same fucking thing
22.01.2026 17:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Related-ish, a student asked about mono/stereo yesterday, and I immediately rec'd your book!
21.01.2026 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Having to take out a second mortgage thanks to @homefield.bsky.social
20.01.2026 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Consistently surprised to see people who claim (and definitely do) support journalism and criticism get so mad about $5-10 paywalls.
20.01.2026 15:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading articles on the World Wide Web is better than ever
14.01.2026 15:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can subscribe to NEWS OVER NOISE right here. Some fun episodes coming later this season! news-over-noise.simplecast.com
13.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our second episode is with Jim Rodenbush, who was pushed out as director of student media at Indiana University for protecting students from admin pushback: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/whe...
13.01.2026 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some good news: NEWS OVER NOISE is back for a fourth season! The first episode is a roundtable discussion with great media literacy educators about (ugh) generative AI: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/bes...
13.01.2026 16:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yinzer, Hoosier, King
10.01.2026 04:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wack ass 2003 sequel
03.01.2026 13:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.
03.01.2026 13:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0People obsessed with “having a plan” simply refuse to accept how creative work is done. Nevermind that VG’s case…he famously figured out BB each season.
02.01.2026 19:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This right here is the New World Order, brother #iufb
02.01.2026 00:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not that we needed it, but a fine reminder when someone gets on stage at the Globes or Oscars, talking about the "diverse voices."
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