scholarly journals The rise of corporational determinism: digital media corporations and narratives of media change

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Natale ◽  
Paolo Bory ◽  
Gabriele Balbi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Media Corporations

scholarly journals Watching Battlestar Galactica in Australia and the Tyranny of Digital Distance

2008 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tama Leaver
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Battlestar Galactica ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
Media Corporations

In an era where communication technologies can move digital media at close to the speed of light, this paper explores the rupture between this technical potential and the actual model by which international television screening dates are determined in Australia. As the delays between overseas and Australian airdates can be as long two years, and average over six months, the rapid rise in both official and fan-produced online material and interaction relating to television series has given rise to a massive but largely unfulfilled demand for simultaneous access to episodes across the globe. Using the case study of the critically acclaimed fan favourite Battlestar Galactica, this paper outlines some of the strategies by which producers build global fan loyalty — from official websites, blogs, commentary podcasts and online deleted scenes to exclusive webisodes and official participation in fan forums. The paper argues that these trends, combined with the time delay between release dates, are the largest factors contributing to the unlawful downloading of television via peer-to-peer file-sharing platforms such as BitTorrent. In attempting to maintain distribution models that began as geographic necessities, but have become exclusively political and economic decisions in an era of digital communication technologies, this paper argues that media corporations are perpetuating a ‘tyranny of digital distance’ and alienating their own audiences.

Think Global, Act Global: Corporate Content Streaming and Australian Media Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 116 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Murray
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Local Content ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Ownership Reform ◽  
Media Corporations

Australia's media policy agenda has recently been dominated by debate over two key issues: media ownership reform, and the local content provisions of the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement. Challenging the tendency to analyse these issues separately, the article considers them as interlinked indicators of fundamental shifts occurring in the digital media environment. Converged media corporations increasingly seek to achieve economies of scale through ‘content streaming’: multi-purposing proprietary content across numerous digitally enabled platforms. This has resulted in rivalries for control of delivery technologies (as witnessed in media ownership debates) as well as over market access for corporate content (in the case of local content debates). The article contextualises Australia's contemporary media policy flashpoints within international developments and longer-term industry strategising. It further questions the power of media policy as it is currently conceived to deal adequately with the challenges raised by a converging digital media marketplace.

scholarly journals One mobile app – seven art museums. A case study of Kunstporten

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Joanna Iranowska
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
Museum Educators

As digital media change our society, museums are trying to rethink their mission and benefit from the possibilities digital tools afford. First, this article provides a historical background for the development of mobile apps as digital interpretive media in Norwegian museums between 2005 and 2020. Second, it analyses a specific case – the app Kunstporten – one of the most interesting apps to have emerged in the Norwegian cultural sector in recent years. The app was developed between 2012–2013 by seven Norwegian art museums, and the first museum app in Norway targeted explicitly at children. This small case study is based on interviews with museum educators and digital walkthroughs exploring the affordances (Gibson 1978) of Kunsporten. The article seeks to answer two questions: what have education departments learned from introducing this digital interpretive media? And why is the app more successful in some museums than others?

scholarly journals SIGNIFICANCE OF NEUROECONOMICS IN MEDIA CORPORATIONS SURVIVAL IN THE AGE OF DIGITALIZATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (07) ◽  
pp. 917-920
Author(s):  
Aliyu Aminu Ahmed ◽  
◽  
Rukayya Aminu Muhammad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Theory Of The Firm ◽  
Consumer Information ◽  
Media Economics ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
Consumer Habits ◽  
Media Corporations

The three concepts of neuroeconomics, behavioral economics and media economics were briefly examined, as relates to media corporations in the age of digitization and found to be closely related to human behavior mostly at individual level. The three concepts are also theoretically related because they all are concerned with human behavior and choices. There are varieties of theories in studying media economics, a few were examined and found to be relevant to Neuroeconomics, they include Theory of The Firm, The Consumer Theory, Theory of Ruinous Competition and Broadcast Media Concentration. The age of digitization has brought with it proliferation of especially electronic media, especially social media. This implies the traditional understanding of how media corporations operate have changed. It was found that consumption of digital media is rapidly increasing and becoming more personalized to individual behaviors and preferences, therefore neuroeconomics can help explain psychological mechanisms that lead to individual economic decision-making and understanding of media economics. Neuroeconomics , by leveraging on neuroscience, can contribute to understanding consumer habits, social networking and possibly predict choices of media consumers and/or detect consumers or groups that are likely to exhibit problematic behaviors. By using neuroeconomics models, media corporations can understand demand and consumer information, thereby tailoring media products in a way that will increase its value and utility to the consumers and ultimately profitability of the media corporations.

scholarly journals German Communication Studies facing the challenge of digital media change: debates and controversies in the scientific community since the 1990s

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 27647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Koenen ◽  
Christina Sanko
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Media Environments

The article deals with the development of German Communication Studies since the mid-1990s until today. Its focus lays on the discussions on new media and their consequences for the redefinition of the scientific field as “New Communication Science”. Different to the scientific tradition of the ‘old’ German “Publizistikwissen-schaft” with the main focus on mass media and public communication, the ‘new’ field is characterized by a broader view on communication and media in reaction to the interweaving of interpersonal and media communication in the digital age. Ac-cording to the idea of science as social process, this paper asks how the new orien-tation gained acceptance in the scientific community and reconstructs the scholarly debates on this path. These include external triggers of debate such as the Silber-mann controversy that resulted in the appointment of an internal self-conception committee and the very first paper on the profile of the discipline in Germany. The reconstructed debates in this paper outline the development of two strands within the scientific community: traditionalists and visionaries. Although the intensity of discussions on the disciplinary identity of German Communication Studies abated since the adoption of the second self-conception paper that embraced the diversity of the discipline, debates on the extension versus limitation of the range of research subjects in the course of changing media environments and societies prevail until present day.

scholarly journals Media społecznościowe w rękach młodych ludzi

1970 ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Ewelina Konieczna
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Vital Resource

Popular media culture has been a vital resource through which youth generations have defined themselves, their desires, and their hopes and dreams. This continues to be reflected in the dynamic ways that the youth are using digital media to shape their everyday lives. As a result, young people are constantly creative; they acquire new skills and make up groups and communities in the media culture. The purpose of the reflections in the article is a look at the media practices of young people and an attempt to find an answer to the question how the young generation uses social media for communication and participation in culture and how social media change media culture.

scholarly journals Automating the digital everyday: an introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Burgess ◽  
Peta Mitchell ◽  
Tim Highfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Change ◽  
Self Driving Cars ◽  
And Robotics

This Special Issue brings together a range of social science and humanities perspectives on the relationships among automation, digital media and everyday life. We have aimed to get beyond the current hype and anxieties around self-driving cars, algorithms and robotics, and to achieve a more precise and grounded understanding of exactly what might be meant by automation, how and with what effects it is becoming entangled with everyday life and how investigating these relationships also helps us in understanding processes of media change in society more broadly.

Gott und Google

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
John Durham Peters
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
Online Searches ◽  
Google Search ◽  
Media Corporations

Sowohl die Struktur des Google-Suchalgorithmus als auch die Rhetorik rund um das Unternehmen machen den Anspruch Googles deutlich, den klassischen theologischen Status der Allwissenheit zu erreichen. Wenn man versteht, wie Google Online-Recherchen durchführt, erkennt man, dass dieses charakteristischste aller digitalen Medienunternehmen in einer langen Tradition religiöser Medien steht, die in Anspruch nehmen, auf eine ontologische Weise zu operieren. </br></br>Both the structure of the Google search algorithm and the rhetoric surrounding the company suggest Google's aspiration to attain the classic theological status of omniscience. Understanding how Google performs online searches shows that this most characteristic of all digital media corporations fits in a long lineage of religious media that claim to operate ontologically.

scholarly journals Globalization and Geoblocking: Sustaining Nationally Bound Economic and Political Practices of Media Distribution and Access on the Internet

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elaine Venter
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Media Corporations ◽  
National Borders

Where we access the internet dictates what we see or, more importantly, do not see online. Access to online media content and information on the internet is controlled worldwide by a process called geoblocking. The term geoblocking refers to the process whereby a website blocks a user's access to digital media content or other information based on their geographic location. While it is possible that openness can exist on the internet, this dissertation asserts that the internet is not a completely free and open space as it continues to be shaped and bordered by media corporations, governments, and audiences. This dissertation further argues that geoblocking media content is an economic, political, and social reaction against the perceived danger of digital permeability of national borders through the internet. This dissertation examines how traditional, older models of media distribution and exhibition based on national borders, persist when the internet allows for global media access. Because of globalization, media corporations, governments, and the audience are in a connected loop where each are negotiating the real and virtual positive and negative effects of economic, political, cultural, and technological globalization. This dissertation finds that media corporations, governments, and the audience are responsible for using geoblocking to serve their varying motivations for maintaining control over accessibility of content and information. Examining geoblocking from the perspectives of media corporations and governments and the audience gives us further insight into the larger whole of the digital and real infrastructure of the internet -- where it is located, who has power over it, and who has access or not and why. By analyzing the relationships between media corporations, and motivations this study shows an uneven power distribution exists with media corporations and governments maintaining most of the control with the ability to dictate audience behaviors online to match their expectations and offline model. It is determined that what is at stake when geoblocking borders off the world by censoring content on the internet is: balance or power, access, and freedom.

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