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Regulating Media Consumption
From the July Zeitgeist… As Brian Lowry wrote recently in Variety, both TV and newspapers are struggling to respond to the changing ways people are consuming their media. “Both are communications...
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As seen (only) on TV
Product placement has been rampant in the US for sometime; Zeitgeist has commented on it before, as well as its close cousin, contextual advertising. Part of the Zeitgeist team thinks the show 30 Rock...
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Intellectual Property ReBoot
The British Library corrals some bright sparks and lights some fires over copyright protection. At the Emmy Awards recently in Los Angeles, emcee Conan O’Brien bemoaned (or rather, celebrated, see...
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How to master social media, the Conan O’Brien way
Conan the Television Host, a Harvard alum who back in the day wrote many an episode of The Simpsons, found himself at the centre of controversy last year, a victim of NBC and its admiration of Jay...
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A Lack of (Virtual) Governance
If you’ve been living in or aware of any of the news coming out of the Middle East of late, you’re probably cognisant of the fact that the status quo as we have, for generations, known it, is coming...
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Damned Lies – Putting data in context
In 1894, one Doctor M Price referred at a gathering to “the proverbial kinds of falsehoods, ‘lies, damned lies, and statistics'”. Zeitgeist was enrolled on a stats course back at uni. Zeitgeist...
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Game Change – How TV stole Film’s Spotlight
In a belated – and very un-zeitgeisty – move, Zeitgeist only got around to seeing HBO’s Game Change this past weekend. The film, which first aired in the US in March, is based on the book by Mark...
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The state of retail
The love of the bargain is what drives them… Click for CNBC’s coverage It’s a common fallacy to think of a time before a change in status quo as somehow being magically problem-free. A Panglossian...
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(R)evolutions in television and film – Peter Pan and The Player
What goes around, comes around… Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose… TV executives’ concern over changing viewing habits is nothing new. Sports coverage continues to deliver; it’s such thinking...
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