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• In Media Res
  Re: The Promises and Challenges of Fan-Based On-Line Archives for Global Television

  The ephemerality of YouTube

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Thursday, August 9, 2007 — 2:41 pm

  The ephemerality of YouTube & its kin is a definite challenge. The personal tactic is to use one of the Firefox plugins to download clips whenever you find something precious (I use Unplug, then convert the file with iSquint). The broader issue is mor ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “Define Good”: The Anxious Pleasures of Subscribing to HBO

  Just to follow-up Dave's

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 17, 2007 — 4:16 am

  Just to follow-up Dave's point, I think HBO does play multiple sides of the gender street, as Sex in the City and Six Feet Under are both invested in heavily female & gay sensibilities (and created by gay men), just as Sopranos, Entourage, Rome, ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Lost as TV3

  Just as an addendum tying

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, February 12, 2008 — 1:49 am

  Just as an addendum tying together the intersecting industrial and creative issues in the Missing Pieces: they were originally slated for mid-season in season 2, and imagined as raw footage from a camera that Hurley found on the island. They kept getting ...
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  Re: Lost as TV3

  I think it's also important

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Monday, February 11, 2008 — 10:25 pm

  I think it's also important to note how the mobisodes themselves blazed a trail for the terms of the writers' contract- unlike most other shows, the Lost producers forced ABC to treat these shorts as 'content' not 'promotion,' ...
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  Re: Synchronizing Complexity

  Stacey - it's interesting

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Saturday, February 16, 2008 — 12:46 am

  Stacey- it's interesting that in reading through the YouTube comments on this video, the creator claims that he's not really a 24 fan. I agree that the aesthetics converge, but perhaps not intentionally. Thanks to all participants in a lively co ...
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  Re: “A Trek for Our Time”: The Continuing Relevance and Resonance of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

  Nice parallels (& video).

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Friday, March 23, 2007 — 2:41 am

  Nice parallels (& video). I'd extend the analogy in terms of each show's relationship to its established brand. Both pushed against their previous incarnations' sensibility and traditions, potentially alienating established fanbases and ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “She’s a Marvel”: Daytime Soaps and Transmedia Storytelling

  Wow. That was pretty

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 10, 2007 — 5:50 pm

  Wow. That was pretty astounding. As an outsider to both soap opera & comic book fan communities, I wonder how fans are responding to this genre mixture- although arguably there are many shared textual conventions between soaps & comics, my impress ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “She’s a Marvel”: Daytime Soaps and Transmedia Storytelling

  (And as a side note, her

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Tuesday, April 10, 2007 — 6:12 pm

  (And as a side note, her powers remind me of American Maid from The Tick- domesticity unbound!) ...
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  Re: Lost In Seriality

  Derek - of course I cannot

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Thursday, March 29, 2007 — 3:11 pm

  Derek- of course I cannot resist commenting on this! I think you're dead-on about the meta-pleasures of Lost, which have emerged as a central mode of engagement for the show. In fact the latest episode is all about that meta-engagement (see my blog f ...
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  Re: The Last Lion King of Scotland

  Nice job - I would highly

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  Thursday, April 12, 2007 — 1:16 pm

  Nice job- I would highly recommend the pedagogical possibilities of having students do such projects. I recently had students make remix videos to explore how different media genres and forms can speak to each other- both educational and fun! For one good ...

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