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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

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  Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

  April 19, 2011

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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic TV Failure ratings Production Culture Nielsen cancellation Audience Measurement Curator's Note Success is never giving up, or so they say. Failure, on th ...
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  Re: "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

  power to the imaginary people

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  Anne Moore Tufts University

  Tuesday, April 19, 2011 — 1:21 pm

  possibility for intervention by organized groups of fans. Even if a group of fans crashed a netowork's ...
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  Re: "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

  Ratings as representative failure but cultural success

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  Tuesday, April 19, 2011 — 5:40 pm

  rumblings of HBO possibly developing an American Gods adaptation.  Most articles I've seen about that ... possibility share the idea that the first step toward such a series depends on Game of Thrones 's ratings ...
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  Re: "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

  the it's not you, it's Nielsen narrative

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  Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

  Thursday, April 21, 2011 — 5:34 am

  On the subject of Nielsen shutting out the possibility for fan intervention, I really get a kick out ...
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  Re: "Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken" and Other Adventures in Street Style Marketing

  Circularity of Conjugation

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  DJ McDonald Yale

  Saturday, April 23, 2011 — 6:08 am

  which she could possibly endow a sneaker brand? As for recursiveness; how many "streets" can ...
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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  May 03, 2011

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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
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  Re: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

  Beta Testing as AAA Game Marketing

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  Matthew Thomas Payne University of Notre Dame

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011 — 5:57 pm

  Great post, Nina! I’m struck by how effortlessly and seamlessly beta testing has been integrated ...
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  Digital Labor in Participatory Television

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  Adam Fish Lancaster University, Sociology

  May 05, 2011

  6 comments

  well as in the divided cities in Belfast and Jerusalem and revolutions in central Asia. This ...
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  Re: Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

  Pro-am Issues?

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  Thursday, May 5, 2011 — 7:10 pm

  Or, is the approach to playtesting different for indie developers?      I’m also interested in how we ...
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  Re: Digital Labor in Participatory Television

  Windows of Change?

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  Thursday, May 5, 2011 — 8:34 pm

  (I’m assuming Current TV is an ad-based channel) can be truly innovative or whether the most these ...

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