The landscape for consuming entertainment media has changed. Traditionally, we have been enamored with Hollywood movie starts and actors or actresses on popular television shows, but YouTube and Vine are providing a more unique and relatable form of entertainment media. Rae Votta, one of the panelists for “YouTube Grows Up: Community and Culture,” writes for […]
The SXSW festival is a lot of things. Could you describe it in one word?
I don’t consider myself any sort of new media expert. It is that sole reason, I decided to pursue my graduate degree. I mean, sure, I use new media as well as social media but I didn’t really understand the in’s and out’s of it. So when I submitted my essay to be considered for […]
After the horrific events of Thursday night, many in the SXSW community were understandably shaken up. A lot of people wondered exactly how they could help. The Blood Center of Central Texas put out a call for blood donations, and the next day their lobby was full of Austinites doing their part. It wasn’t just […]
The Alamo Drafthouse is the most culturally branded theater in the country. This film community has allowed the Drafthouse to expand their vision well past Austin, with theaters in Kansas City, New York, and Virginia to name a few. At SXSW, Tim League CEO of the Alamo Drafthouse and Drafthouse Films got together with Eric […]
On June 25 at midnight, nearly 200,000 people worldwide were watching the Wendy Davis filibuster. Zero of those viewers were watching on CNN or Fox News or MSNBC. Instead, anyone that wanted to watch the most interesting political story of the summer, and quite possibly the year, tuned in to the Texas Tribune livestream. Rodney […]
Art and social media are not necessarily things that you would think compliment each other. One seems a thoughtful, deep and meaningful media while the other is often regarded as fleeting and meaningless. However, Dan Fletcher who is founder of Beacon, a startup that connects readers and writers to fund journalism and artist Tanja Hollander beg […]