Friday, January 25, 2008
Redesign, Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Cloverfield vs Lost
More cleaning house with a new redesign around here. Let me know what you think. I went back to a tradition blog format.
Recommended This Week
We’ve been enjoying Fox’s new series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Only thing is that, with past movies and a future trilogy in the works, its hard to keep all the time traveling and related issues straight. Todd Seavey, in "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and Time Travel, speculates that there are really three separate time lines.
Maureen Ryan on that Cloverfield ending and how the JJ Abrams movie is like Lost.
Kudos
Like many people who blog, I’m only as good as my sources. And when it comes to popular culture and its ramifications, there are two sources that I wanted to feature today.
Exploring the way in which businesses are changing in response to the integration of content and brands across media platforms is the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT. As part of the Comparative Media Studies department, their writers discuss various topics in popular culture and the media.
Featured Articles:
Five Things About the Convergence Culture Consortium
"We Had So Many Stories to Tell": The Heroes Comics as Transmedia Storytelling
Another source of commentary upon popular culture, and its consumerism in particular, is Rob Horning’s Marginal Utility at PopMatters. Rob is very good at dissecting economic issues and larger topics within the culture that permit us to live the lives we do.
Featured Article:
Hedonic Marriage
