Cynthia Meyers
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Making fun of sponsors
Conan O'Brien is following a long line of comedians who have likewise "kidded the sponsor" as a way of 1) maintaining their credibility with audiences and 2) keeping audiences engaged with the ad. Fred Allen specialized in this sponsor-kidd ... -
ACE family
Buzzfeed has a story that the dad of the ACE family bought a young girl a penis-shaped lollipop jokingly--seems to fit with the clip I feature here in that his idea of humor is to mock little girls https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/dad-of-you ... -
Sky may not be falling ;-)
Professionalization, networking, evolving business models: these are not bad developments, nor do they necessarily foretell closed systems. They are the normal outcomes of growth--and growth is not a bad thing. Efficiency, through networking, can be a goo ... -
New Norms
Fascinating images! My fantasy is that someday we will publish media scholarship online with full multimedia (audio, video, images)--think how much more interesting media history scholarship would be! But for now, directing readers to our other outlets is ... -
A proposal only partly tongue in cheek
Good point, Michael. I propose banning all proprietary feelings in academia! Only half joking here. We don't own ideas; we don't own archival material. What we can ask for is credit for how we express our ideas, how we engage others with those i ... -
Great format
As a first-time attendee, I enjoyed the much more substantive conversations in the roundtables than is usually found in panel presentations. I think the most successful roundtables included presenters who explained a specific example, illustration, issue, ...