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  Re: In Good Taste?: The BET Awards and the Burden of Representation

  MOBO awards

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  Sarah Martindale Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham

  Friday, March 1, 2013 — 5:16 pm

  Thanks for your post Lauren, I found it very interesting. I was wondering if you're aware of the perennial media debates around the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards in the UK, in which biological markers of race become a source of tension; and how ...
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  Re: "Art and Life combining is called Magic": Mythologizing the Film Industry In and Through Shakespeare in Love

  Re. 'ENSEMBLE'

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  Sarah Martindale Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham

  Monday, February 25, 2013 — 5:13 pm

  Thanks for asking Sam because it means I get to include some more of the points made in my doctoral case study of the film (http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/6126). I find the screenwriting situation interesting because, although Tom Stoppard’s ...
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  Re: ‘Amongst Friends Here Tonight’: National Awards for International Television

  'Quality' and niche content

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  Sarah Martindale Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham

  Wednesday, February 27, 2013 — 11:17 am

  Very interesting post about the role of awards as a legitimation of broadcaster taste, especially in relation to potentially controversial shifts in patterns of programming. I'm interested in the relationship between perceptions of cultural value and ...