scholarly journals Constructed Languages of Hildegard of Bingen and Suzzette Haden Elgin. Female Empowerment through Language?

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Dorota Skowrońska
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Hildegard Of Bingen ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
High Level

Since constructed languages have recently been brought into focus by their prominent presence in film and television production, they have also become more attractive for academic research: several compendia, monographs, and articles have been published on the topic of classification and analysis of conlangs. Glossopoeia of Hildegard of Bingen and Suzette Haden Elgin is unique among the plethora of constructed languages in several aspects: elusive classification, unusual lexical focus, high level of completeness, and female authorship. The article investigates possible classifications of lingua ignota and Láadan, and their grammatical, lexical, and phonological characteristics. It also aims to establish the success of the languages measured against their goal stated or implied by their inventresses and the objectives generally set for constructed languages.

What's Happening to Audience Research?

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Nightingale
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television

The 1980s seem to be the time for a rekindling of interest in audience research. Marketers, advertisers, film and television production houses, and public funding bodies for film production, all seem unanimous in their calls for more and better research. In such a climate, academic research has a special and complicated role to play, and some difficult choices to confront.

Procurement Analytics: Enabling Data Architectures in the Age of Big Data

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goul ◽  
T. S. Raghu ◽  
Ziru Li
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Data Space ◽  
Prescriptive Analytics ◽  
Data Architecture ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Level ◽  
Area Data

As procurement organizations increasingly move from a cost-and-efficiency emphasis to a profit-and-growth emphasis, flexible data architecture will become an integral part of a procurement analytics strategy. It is therefore imperative for procurement leaders to understand and address digitization trends in supply chains and to develop strategies to create robust data architecture and analytics strategies for the future. This chapter assesses and examines the ways companies can organize their procurement data architectures in the big data space to mitigate current limitations and to lay foundations for the discovery of new insights. It sets out to understand and define the levels of maturity in procurement organizations as they pertain to the capture, curation, exploitation, and management of procurement data. The chapter then develops a framework for articulating the value proposition of moving between maturity levels and examines what the future entails for companies with mature data architectures. In addition to surveying the practitioner and academic research literature on procurement data analytics, the chapter presents detailed and structured interviews with over fifteen procurement experts from companies around the globe. The chapter finds several important and useful strategies that have helped procurement organizations design strategic roadmaps for the development of robust data architectures. It then further identifies four archetype procurement area data architecture contexts. In addition, this chapter details exemplary high-level mature data architecture for each archetype and examines the critical assumptions underlying each one. Data architectures built for the future need a design approach that supports both descriptive and real-time, prescriptive analytics.

Do State Corporate Tax Incentives Create Jobs? Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Entertainment Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Thom
Keyword(s):  
Employment Growth ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Incentive Programs ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Policy makers allocate billions of dollars each year to tax incentives that increasingly favor creative industries. This study scrutinizes that approach by examining motion picture incentive programs used in over thirty states to encourage film and television production. It uses a quasi-experimental strategy to determine whether those programs have contributed to employment growth. Results mostly show no statistically significant effects. Results also indicate that domestic employment is unaffected by competing incentives offered outside the United States. These findings are robust to several alternative models and should lead policy makers to question the wisdom of targeted incentives conferred on creative industries.

Imagined spectators

Target ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
General Sense ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Home Entertainment ◽  
Automated Translation ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Research Questions

Abstract This article considers theoretical and methodological questions of language and translation policy in the dissemination of audiovisual products across languages. This is an area where scholarly research is inevitably playing catch-up with rapid change both in the language industries and in film and television production. For example, we have a general sense of ‘dubbing territories’ and ‘subtitling territories’ but in reality the picture is more complex. Norms changed in the course of the home entertainment revolution, with the arrival of the DVD format in the late 1990s ostensibly increasing viewer choice and flexibility of translation provision. The relocation of much audiovisual material to an online environment has also generated fundamental changes in the way that works circulate, with volunteer translators and automated translation processes playing a larger role. Policy developments in access translation have meant that there have also been great changes relatively recently in the availability of SDH subtitling, audio description and other modes of access translation. This is a very broad field which raises many compelling research questions. At the same time, its very breadth does not lend itself to a comprehensive overview. The article will therefore aim to provide an orientation to, rather than a summary of, the theoretical and methodological challenges of research on this topic.

scholarly journals Gay the right way? Roles and routines of Irish media production among gay and lesbian workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O’Brien ◽  
Páraic Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Irish Film ◽  
The Right

This article explores how gay and lesbian identities are incorporated, or not, into the roles and routines of Irish film and television production. Data were gathered in 2018–2019 through semi-structured interviews with a purposive, snowball sample of 10 people who work in the Irish industries. The key findings are that for gay and lesbian workers their minority sexual identity impacts on the roles that they are likely to be included and excluded from. Sexuality also affects their promotion prospects and their career progression. Similarly, in terms of routines of production, gay and lesbian workers are associated with certain genres, based on stereotypical assumptions about their sexual identities by their hetero-managers and colleagues. In short, Irish gay and lesbian media workers articulated an overarching tension between the heteronormativity of the industry and the queerness of the gay and lesbian media worker. Some workers respond to that tension by adopting a homonormative approach to work while others attempt to forge a queer way of producing.

scholarly journals A strategic managerial approach to corporate sports hospitality: the case of Belgian football

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Matteo Balliauw ◽  
Thomas Verlinden ◽  
Lisa De Croocq ◽  
Aline Fobe ◽  
Tomas Van Den Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Marketing Tool ◽  
High Level

Purpose Corporate sports hospitality (CSH) is a relationship marketing tool whereby customers and other stakeholders are invited by a company buying CSH from a club to attend a sports event. The CSH product involves premium seating and optional services such as catering. This industry has been perceived to be in decline, especially in times of economic downturn. The purposes of this paper are a quantification of the CSH industry’s value and the development of a formal CSH management process for both companies and clubs. Design/methodology/approach A case study from the highest division in Belgian football (soccer) is conducted, involving interviews and quantitative data collection as the primary data source, in addition to secondary data and insights from the literature. As opposed to literature, this paper uses a holistic approach, combining the perspective of the club and the CSH buying company with attention for customers. Findings CSH returns account for an important share of club revenues (>10%), despite the smaller market compared to the American major sports leagues. Since a club experiences the strongest competitive impact from substitutes and other clubs in the league, and CSH is often managed on an ad hoc base, disposing of a formal management process is crucial for both clubs and companies. For companies buying CSH, not only return on investment but also return on other objectives matters. Moreover, CSH is at least as effective to deepen existing business relationships as to create new ones. Research limitations/implications The paper provides clubs and companies with a theoretic background and practical key performance indicators (KPIs) to base their managerial decisions on. Although external validity to other Belgian venue-based sports can reasonably be assumed, translating the findings to other countries or non-venue based sports requires caution. Originality/value Little academic research about the CSH industry is available. Specific KPIs to define objectives and measure output, as well as feedback loops for clubs and companies, are developed. The proposed CSH management process follows the same high-level steps, but with different specific actions per actor, leading to a better understanding of similarities and differences of both processes, and a better co-creation of the CSH event.

Nordic production studies at the edge of the 2020s

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Novrup Redvall
Keyword(s):  
Audience Studies ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Research Collaborations ◽  
Current Trends

This article outlines the main developments in Nordic film and television production studies in the 2000s, focusing on recent publications as well as the value of research collaborations, centres and conferences. The article also highlights current trends such as an ongoing interest in creating stronger connections between production and audience studies.

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