scholarly journals Structured Industry Workshops as Methodology: Researching National Screen Agencies and Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Novrup Redvall ◽  
Inge Ejbye Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
The Media ◽  
Genuine Knowledge

This article explores the advantages of ‘structured industry workshops’ as a methodology for obtaining nuanced empirical data about the practices and ‘behind the scenes’ workings of national screen agencies, organizations, institutions and stakeholders. The article argues that structured industry workshops with industry informants in the media industries have five major methodological benefits. The workshops facilitate access to and interest from elite or expert informants who can otherwise be hard to attract; they counter the risk of spin and ‘corporate scripts; they provide a valuable forum for not only finding out what practitioners think, but also how they discuss and engage with other practitioners; they can be a pathway to industry and policy change as well as future academic inquiry; and finally, structured industry workshops can help establish a platform for sustained dialogue and industry-academy collaborations, with genuine knowledge exchange and co-production as well as potential for impact.

A Study on the Prevalence and Nature of Ragging Practices in Selected Educational Institutions in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Mohan Rao ◽  
Shobna Sonpar ◽  
Amit Sen ◽  
Shekhar P. Seshadri ◽  
Harsh Agarwal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports

Ragging has claimed hundreds of innocent lives and has ruined the careers of thousands of students. A total of 717 cases of ragging were reported in the English print media alone across the country from January 2007 to September 2013. However, the media reports tend to focus on extreme cases and do not reveal the true extent of ragging. Moreover, in the absence of empirical data, it is difficult to understand the processes involved in, and the ramifications of, ragging. This study examines the prevalence and types of ragging practices in educational institutions. The study covered 10,632 students from 37 educational institutions spread across 12 states in India. Findings show that almost 40 per cent students admitted to having experienced some kind of ragging. College-wise analysis of the results showed marked variations in the prevalence of ragging among colleges, thus pointing to the role of institutional factors in the occurrence of ragging. Variations in responses are also seen based on the kind of course pursued, gender, and place of residence of student, thus indicating that these are critical factors in influencing the prevalence, severity and kinds of ragging practices.

Masterchef‘s Amateur Makeovers

2012 ◽  
Vol 143 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Seale
Keyword(s):  
Television Program ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
The Media

The media industries are becoming increasingly reliant on amateur labour, and Australia's highest rating television program, MasterChef Australia, is no exception. The show's grand narrative of ‘making over’ home cooks into professionals is at odds with its calculatedly ambivalent representation and deployment of the trope of the amateur. This article proposes that MasterChef is instead invested in deferring the attainment of professional status so as to ensure the continued provision of inexpensive labour and content provided by amateurs.

Children and the media industries

2021 ◽  
pp. 247-256
Author(s):  
Anna Potter ◽  
Jeanette Steemers
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
The Media

Authorship and agency in the media industries

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-232
Author(s):  
Eva Novrup Redvall
Keyword(s):  
Media Industries ◽  
The Media

The Internet and Changes in the Media Industry: A 5-Year Cross-National Examination of Media Industries for 51 Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 894-918
Author(s):  
Sung Wook Ji
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
National Examination ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Media ◽  
Direct Payments ◽  
Cross National

This study explores the effects of the Internet on changes in traditional media industries. Previous studies addressing the Internet’s effects on media industries have largely been conducted in a piecemeal fashion, with most tackling narrowly defined topics limited to individual media in specific countries. By taking a broader perspective on the Internet’s effects, this study examines changes in the aggregate revenue of all major media industries. Employing country-level, panel-data analysis of 51 countries from 2009 to 2013, the study shows that the Internet has led to a shift in the balance of revenue away from advertising and toward direct payments.

The Impact of the Internet on Business Models in the Media Industries – A Sector-by-Sector Analysis

2012 ◽  
pp. 149-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ala-Fossi ◽  
Piet Bakker ◽  
Hanna-Kaisa Ellonen ◽  
Lucy Küng ◽  
Stephen Lax ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sector Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Growing Ourselves to Death? Economic and Ecological Crises, the Growth of Waste, and the Role of the Media and Cultural Industries

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Trish Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Media Industries ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses

Since the financial crash of 2008, large sectors of capitalist economies have been enveloped by a crisis that is typically represented by media discourses in purely economic and financial terms. However, the crisis is also ecological. Yet, while media discourses frequently embrace and propose small-scale environmental remedies, it is rarely pointed out that such calls stand at odds with the consumer capitalist system under which the media industries operate. Adopting a ‘business as usual’ approach to consumption, the media industries encourage the public to shop their way out of recession, despite crippling austerity measures that have been imposed on them. This is in the face of an unprecedented ecological crisis which is now largely accepted as due to anthropogenic factors. In light of this ecological crisis, continued growth-based economic paradigms are increasingly deemed unsustainable. Yet frequently, media discourse uncritically takes growth and waste as two aspects of an unchanging and necessary paradigm. Against this backdrop of economic and ecological crises this paper draws on a set of critical cross-disciplinary literature from Harvey's political economy, to Foster and Moore's political ecology to Baran and Sweezy on waste, through to Adorno, Bourdieu and Garnham, to identify and engage with the strategic role of the media. It outlines crisis theories of economy and ecology, moving on to discuss crucial, if neglected aspects of the role of the media and cultural industries with respect to these crises. This paper advances the view that the role of the media in construction of norms with respect to consumption practices and waste is of significance and arguably needs to be incorporated into crisis theory of both economy and ecology.

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