Category Archives: media studies

March 5, 2013

Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole

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Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the 1940s. Q: What is the Wheeler-Lea Amendment that was … Continue reading →

February 25, 2013

The South Asian invasion of the Oscars

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Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance … Continue reading →

July 29, 2010

“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues

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Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday.  As a result of the exemption request process, professors and film and … Continue reading →

May 18, 2009

Swine flu adds academic conference to its list of victims

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Late last week we learned that the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies, scheduled for May 21-24 in Tokyo, has been cancelled owing to concerns about the transmission of the H1N1 virus.

January 27, 2009

Watching Obama from the Arabian Peninsula by James Schwoch

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I’m sitting in Doha, Qatar, on January 27, 2009, at about 4pm Arabian Standard Time—here this year on a faculty appointment at the new Northwestern University-Qatar campus in Education City. Last night, Al-Arabiya in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) aired Obama’s first … Continue reading →