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For young activists, video is their voice

Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

Mar 5, 2010

When Elisa Kreisinger wanted to protest the newly diminished visibility of gay characters and story lines on television, she didn’t launch a petition drive or write an angry op-ed piece. Instead, like many other members of the YouTube generation for ...

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As Data Flows In, the Dollars Flow Out

Jenna Wortham, New York Times

Feb 8, 2010

For many people, the subscriptions and services for entertainment and communications, which are more often now one and the same, have become indispensable necessities of life, on par with electricity, water and groceries. And for every new device, th...

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Video chat gets an upgrade

Mike Swift, San Jose Mercury News

Oct 2, 2009

For decades, ever since Dick Tracy made calls through the video screen on his wristwatch, video chat has been a personal technology everybody could imagine using, but that — for an array of technology, standardization and sociological reasons — few h...

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Videogames now outperform Hollywood movies

Tom Chatfield, The Observer

Sep 27, 2009

The videogame industry is an area in which consumers are voting with their wallets and their eyeballs: audiences, according to recent surveys such as the Pew Internet & American Life Project, are increasingly switching off their televisions and aband...

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Big screen vs. small: Cinemas get a remake to compete for growing ranks of online video fans

Martha Irvine, Associated Press

Aug 28, 2009

CHICAGO (AP) — Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is often just as happy to hunker down on a bed or a couch with friends to watch a d...

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Can Cable TV Survive the Hulu Era?

Jeffrey L. Wilson, Laptop Magazine

Aug 27, 2009

Is cable TV about to go the way of UHF? Data culled by the Pew Research Center estimates that 22 percent of American adults have cut back or canceled cable within the past year, and within that group, 32 percent have connected their computers to thei...

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TV viewers falling for the evil plot

Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle

Jul 29, 2009

A new study out today indicates the "evil plot to destroy the world'' might just be working.

A new Pew Internet & American Life Project report says there is now a more pronounced shift by Internet users toward watching TV and movies online. And th...

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Online video watching nearly doubles since ’06

Suzanne Choney, MSNBC

Jul 29, 2009

Americans' appetite for Web video, from clips shared on YouTube to TV programs and movies, continues to soar, nearly doubling since 2006, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project released Wednesday.

"The audience for onl...

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The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Sites Shoots Up

Jul 29, 2009Mary Madden

As the audience for online video continues to grow, a leading edge of internet users are migrating their viewing from their computer screens to their TV screens.

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Those Big Bright Eyes May Soon Be Brighter

Anne Eisenberg, New York Times

Jun 20, 2009

HOME videos capture treasured moments — but also many a grainy image and shaky scene, as any visit to YouTube shows.

Now people who shoot impromptu videos on their cellphones and other handheld devices may find some help in stabilizing the rough s...

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