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Queensland University of Technology
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Media Studies | Communication and Media Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies |
Radio and Television Broadcasting | The Media | Film and Video Services (excl. Animation and Computer Generated Imagery) | Internet Broadcasting
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-04-2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2000
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-09-2023
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology and Fight Food Waste CRC, NSW Environment Protection Authority
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.228653
Abstract: This Summary Report presents key insights from a 2020-2021 research project addressing the challenge of evaluating the multifaceted impact of social media communication and/or c aigns as interventions for changing domestic food waste behaviour. It was funded by the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and NSW Environment Protection Authority.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-06-2022
DOI: 10.1177/15274764211027222
Abstract: This article explores the rise in foreign television production company ownership at the beginning of the twenty-first century as a new mechanism of internationalization. It joins mechanisms such as foreign program sales and transnational satellite channels in shifting television further from its domestic origins. To date, examination of television’s internationalization has focused on programs and programming. Foreign ownership may be a less obvious “cultural” form of business internationalization, but it nevertheless affects the television culture made available in many places and poses consequences for cultures of consumption. Foreign ownership also opens up new avenues of inquiry for global television scholars to question the shifting geographies of power in the field of television production.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-01-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-12-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CORG.12349
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-09-2021
Abstract: The different technological affordances and revenue models of subscriber-funded, internet-distributed video streaming services have altered the competitive environments of audiovisual services. One category of these services, multinational SVODs (subscription video on demand), are changing the dynamics of transnational video distribution. Although having subscribers and offices, and commissioning content from many countries, are obvious measures of these services’ multinational status, the extent to which the distinct affordances of these services diminish the national lens through which all other international television trade occurs may be the most profound measure. The article explores how this too becomes a distinguishing competitive tool for Netflix that enables uncommon content strategies, such as the ability to program for tastes and sensibilities too small to effectively form a viable market for services limited by national reach.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2007
Abstract: This article explores the relatively unstudied practice of the US ‘upfront’ buying process in which advertisers make multimillion-dollar commitments to buy 70 to 90 percent of the commercial time in the upcoming year in just a few days. Using observation of a media buying agency during the 2005 upfront buying period, attendance at a number of upfront presentations in 2003, and interviews with media buyers and planners, this article explains and analyzes the importance of the upfront buying process to the cultural production of the US television industry. I examine the causes of the durability of this significant economic practice, suggestions of its demise and its consequences for cultural production during a time of substantial industry reorganization. Access to industry workers and processes reveals important information about the actual operation of commercial media structures that add valuable insight to established understandings of economic practices.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2019
Abstract: As services such as Netflix and Amazon Video have overcome the business challenges that long stymied the technological potential of Internet-distributed television, they have also introduced a range of policy challenges. Not only do these services lack governance by a clear regulatory regime in many countries, but their entrance to the competitive field of audio-visual service providers refigures the policy established for broadcast, cable and satellite industries. These challenges are simultaneously opportunities, as Internet-distributed television also provides tools that might effectively achieve policy goals.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-07-2021
DOI: 10.1177/13548565211028205
Abstract: The business of television has been transformed by digital distribution and internationalisation. The implications of these changes vary based on a range of structural dynamics such as national scale, language and pre-existing norms tied to particular macroeconomic conditions, of which, the balance of funding is key. This article looks beyond the general sense of crisis tied to digital disruption to investigate the macroeconomic conditions that shape how national television industries are able to adapt and respond to the disruption. Although disruption is universal, different macroeconomic conditions enable different industrial impacts and possible policy solutions. The article uses comparative analysis of three English language countries with very distinctive television ecologies to reveal the under-acknowledged role macroeconomic features – particularly the advent of new tools for advertising – play in shaping the options and opportunities for national industries going forward.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-05-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-02-2021
Abstract: Although Internet-distributed television bears much in common with the television long studied and theorized using cultural studies-based approaches to analysis, several of its features profoundly deviate from earlier television norms and require reassessment and adaptation of theoretical frames. This article focuses on the issue of textual popularity in relation to these services and identifies key challenges to using the same frames of cultural power that have been used for studying television in the past. The underlying problem of audience fragmentation does not originate with streaming services, but this profound contextual change, in concert with industrial aspects that further distinguish internet-distributed television from television’s past norms, must be addressed. The article concludes by identifying several ways the cultural power of streaming services can be investigated despite the challenges that emerging norms of Internet-distributed video provide. This article is based on a paper presented at the Media in Transition symposium (Utrecht, June 28, 2018), in the Industries and Infrastructures panel organised by Judith Keilbach. Also published in this issue of ECS are Vicki Mayer, ‘From peat to Google power: communications infrastructures and structures of feeling in Groningen’ and Jennifer Holt & Michael Palm, ‘More than a number: the telephone and the history of digital identification’.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-06-2022
DOI: 10.1093/JOC/JQAC020
Abstract: The advent of subscriber-funded, direct-to-consumer, streaming video services has important implications for video distribution around the globe. Conversations about transnational media flows and power—a core concern of critical communication studies—have only just begun to explore these changes. This article investigates how global streamers challenge existing communication and media theory about transnational video and its cultural power and considers the theory rebuilding necessitated by streamers’ discrepant features. It takes particular focus on Netflix and uses the library data available from Ampere Analysis to empirically explore and compare 17 national libraries. Analyses suggest considerable variation in the contents of Netflix libraries cross-nationally, in contrast with other U.S.-based services, as well as Netflix libraries offering content produced in a greater range of countries. These and other results illustrate, albeit indirectly, the operations and strategies of global streamers, which then inform theory building regarding their cultural role.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-01-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-01-2012
Abstract: This article considers the ideological significance of homophobic discourse as part of a sophisticated interrogation of homophobic outlooks in the FX series Rescue Me. It posits that a variety of narrative features enable a strategy of “working through” in which characters’ frank conversations and evolving perspectives depict the process of experiencing ideological challenge. Working through emphasizes the need for scholars to fully explore the internally contradictory narratives that are characteristic of the increasing complexity of some television storytelling and defies norms of critical media analysis that argue particular media texts either reinforce or resist dominant ideology. Cogent examination of other instances of working through could reinvigorate stymied intellectual spaces by insisting that scholars consider characters’ process of struggle with ideological perspectives throughout the unfolding of a series.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-07-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211030370
Abstract: This article analyses how digitisation and screen policy reform altered the production of domestic drama and children’s programmes in Australia. Focusing on dynamics that developed before widespread use of streaming services, it maps the disruptions and evolution that digital ‘multi-channels’ caused and how they challenged audiovisual policy frameworks intended to safeguard local television including drama on advertiser-funded broadcasters. The article reveals how the effects of fragmentation undermined commercial television’s business model and eroded investment in scripted content. Shifting policy priorities also brought new support mechanisms for local programmes and led to adjustments to the ABC’s drama funding practices, with significant effects on the form, content, and cultural visibility of Australian drama. This initial stage of digital disruption – spanning roughly 2001–2014 – is often overlooked but is crucial for appreciating the challenges facing Australian television drama production in the 2020s.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-08-2018
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Date: 14-01-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2009
Abstract: This article explores the institutional adjustments that have altered the operation of the U.S. television industry over the past twenty years. The author first chronicles those industrial norms that characterized television during its “network era” (1952 to mid-1980s) and upon which most ideas about the role of television in society are based. She then explores the ways in which adjustments in technologies, industrial formations, governmental policies, practices of looking, and textual formations have redefined the norms of television in the United States since the mid-1980s. Analysis of the shifts in the institutional and cultural functions of television reveals the articulations between the dominant industrial practices and the forms, texts, and cultural role of the medium. Such a conception of shifts of the medium allows us to understand recent changes as an evolution of this central cultural medium rather than its demise.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 20-08-2019
Abstract: The emergence of Internet-distributed television services such as Netflix has led viewers and legacy television companies to rethink the norms of television. Internet distribution is often presumed as the source of Netflix’s market differentiation, but the contemporary competitive field has simultaneously been adjusted by shifts in revenue model and ownership regulations. This article examines the multiple shifts in the US television industry to illustrate how adjustments in the underlying financing practices of series production and revenue sources also structure the multiplatform environment. Distribution technology is not reshaping the boundaries and norms of television texts and industries alone, but adjustments to industrial practices such as financing must also be examined. Comparison of the financing practices of subscriber-funded, linear, HBO, and nonlinear Netflix ground the analysis.
Publisher: Maize Books
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.3998/MPUB.9699689
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2013.0030
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.237030
Abstract: The Global Streaming Strategy Assessment identifies the range of sectors emerging in the streaming video marketplace. It identifies how key conditions such as ownership and underlying technology norms shape different experiences by country and the characteristics that organise distinct sectors of service. The assessment uses data about the composition of service libraries to identify different strategies and value propositions on offer.
Publisher: New York University Press
Date: 31-12-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-11-2019
Abstract: Although ‘streaming’ media has become increasingly common across multiple media industries, significant differences underpin the industrial practices that allow this behavior and explain discrepant experiences of internet distribution across industries. This article uses collaborative comparative media industry analysis to investigate the commonalities and variations among streaming in the US music, film, and television industries to assess the viability of theorizing the cultural implications of streaming as a consistent phenomenon across media industries. The article explores the consistencies and ergences of streaming among consumer experience, business practices, and textual implications to compare how established uses, production practices, and media content have been affected by internet distribution. Such detailed industry comparison is a novel approach, and the article also considers the methodological value of rigorous collaboration among scholars expert in different media industries. The analysis is based on industry data and practices obtained through trade press, industry reports, and interviews with media workers consistent with a critical media industries approach.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-09-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211044171
Abstract: This essay introduces the special issue of Media International Australia dedicated to the work of Stuart Cunningham. We note the scholarly contributions made by Stuart Cunningham to communications, media and cultural studies, including screen studies, creative industries and cultural policy studies. We also note his extensive contributions to institution building and academic leadership in engaging with industry and policy agencies from an applied humanities perspective.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-2007
Abstract: This article explores the Upfront presentations made by United States broadcasters to the media-buying community each year to analyze the complicated economic and cultural functions of promotional processes that occur before programs ever reach the viewing audience. The analysis draws from observation of Upfront presentations, triangulated with analysis of trade press articles and interviews, to present a comprehensive examination of this component of promotion within the circuit of cultural production. Examining the promotional activities that occur before programming reaches audiences illustrates the dual client nature of the United States commercial television industry, and the different strategies evinced indicate the need to theorize internal promotion distinctly from the promotion of texts and networks to audiences. Additionally, the variant promotional strategies used by different networks in this internal venue reveal institutional priorities in audience composition and brand differentiation among networks.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-01-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-04-2009
Publisher: Dartmouth College Library Press
Date: 2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-10-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-06-2020
Abstract: Response to Paddy Scannell’s ‘The future of television’.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-07-2020
DOI: 10.1002/9781119429128.IEGMC166
Abstract: Male characters on television have dominated television storytelling despite rarely being considered by gender scholars. With nearly seven decades of television in some parts of the world, it is difficult to support comprehensive claims about male characters, but trends and trajectories of depictions can be traced, particularly in how male characters are depicted as fathers and husbands and in roles in which they are “public heroes”—most commonly those such as lawmen.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/VLT.0.0067
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-08-2010
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.212330
Abstract: This report examines changes in the production and commissioning of Australian television drama from 1999–2019, a period marked by notable changes in the business of television in Australia and globally. More production companies now make drama in Australia however, the fact that more companies share less than half the annual hours once produced raises concerns about sustainability. Several major Australian production companies have been acquired by foreign conglomerates and challenge the viability of domestic companies that lack access to international corporate capital and distribution. The decrease in adult drama hours commissioned by commercial broadcasters has reshaped Australian television drama more than any other change. The national broadcasters have increased their role in commissioning, particularly in children’s drama. Titles have not decreased nearly as significantly as the number of episodes per series. Commercial broadcasters’ drama decreased from an average of 21 episodes per title in 1999 to seven in 2019, a 60 per cent decrease that, along with the increasing peripheralization of soaps, has diminished available training grounds and career paths in the Australian scripted production industry.
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Date: 05-10-2021
DOI: 10.3998/MIJ.1338
Abstract: Internet-distributed video services have attracted exceptional attention in recent years for their novelty and growth. Business and trade discussions frequently excerpt internet-distributed video services from the broader field of video and narrowly construct their relationship as one of direct competition (e.g., streaming wars). However, there are several distinguishing characteristics of these services that make their relationship more complex. This article explores the multifaceted distinctions and markets within internet-distributed video, including differences in programming, geography, audience, business model, and market position. We also consider what is at stake in different imaginings of video markets for media industry scholarship and policy.
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Date: 2015
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-09-2015
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)-based data improve bankruptcy prediction over Australian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (AGAAP)-based data. In doing so, this paper focuses on intangibles because conservative accounting rules for intangibles under IFRS required managers to write off substantial amounts of intangibles previously capitalized and revalued upwards under AGAAP. The focus on intangibles is also motivated by empirical evidence that financially distressed firms are more likely to voluntarily capitalize and make upward revaluations of intangibles compared with healthy firms. This paper analyses a s le of 46 bankrupt firms and 46 non-bankrupt (healthy) firms using a matched-pair design over the period 1991 to 2004. The authors match control firms on fiscal year, size (total assets), Global Industry Classification Standard-based industry membership and principal activities. Using Altman’s (1968) model, this paper compares the bankruptcy prediction results between bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms for up to five years before bankruptcy. In the tests, the authors use financial statements as reported under AGAAP and two IFRS-based data sets. The IFRS-based datasets are created by considering the adjustments on the AGAAP data required to implement the requirements of IAS 38, IFRS 3 and IAS 36. This paper finds that, under IFRS, Altman’s (1968) model consistently predicts bankruptcy for bankrupt firms more accurately than under AGAAP for all of the five years prior to bankruptcy. This greater prediction accuracy emanates from smaller values of the inputs to Altman’s model due to conservative accounting rules for intangibles under IFRS. However, this greater accuracy in bankruptcy prediction comes with larger Type II errors for healthy firms. Overall, the results provide evidence that the switch from AGAAP to IFRS improves the quality of information contained in the financial statements for predicting bankruptcy. Small s le size and having data available over the required period may limit generalizability of findings. Although bankruptcy prediction is one of the primary uses of accounting information, the burgeoning literature on the benefits of IFRS adoption has so far neglected the role of IFRS data in bankruptcy prediction. Thus, this paper documents a new benefit of IFRS adoption. In this paper, the authors demonstrate how the restrictions on the ability to capitalize and revalue intangibles enhance the quality of information used to predict bankruptcy. These results provide evidence to international standard setters of what they can expect if their efforts to remove non-restrictive accounting practices for intangibles are abandoned.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2020.0034
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Date: 10-10-2018
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 20-04-2018
DOI: 10.7551/MITPRESS/9781906897710.003.0006
Abstract: This chapter considers the need for traditional broadcasters to essentially invent public service media. Although broadcasting will continue to play a role in the public service media project, continuing to think only in terms of public service broadcasting is to ignore a situation of great opportunity. There have never been public service media — in the UK or elsewhere — despite a century of public service broadcasting experience. The arrival of Internet distribution technology with different affordances and limitations has left those in both public service and commercial television feeling unmoored and uncertain of the present and future. It is argued that instead of a regular reappraisal of public service broadcasting, the context of the development of a new mechanism of video distribution requires the more exhaustive task of identifying the ways in which the affordances of Internet-distributed video require the abandonment of the broadcast paradigm and creation of a public service paradigm that embraces the opportunities and characteristics of Internet distribution.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-12-2016
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X211043896
Abstract: Stuart Cunningham contributed to important publications that advanced thinking about transnational media flows, much of which remains relevant a quarter of a century later. This essay explores Cunningham's collaborations with Elizabeth Jacka and John Sinclair in ‘Australian Television and International Mediascapes' and ‘New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral View’ to explore the prescient and productive theoretical innovations these books offered the field.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-02-2018
Publisher: Asociacion Cientifica ICONO14
Date: 24-03-2016
Abstract: Las industrias de televisión de todo el mundo han resistido al profundo cambio que las tecnologías avanzadas y los servicios desarrollados que facilitan la distribución de television por Internet suponen como competencia de la distribución de televisión abierta y por cable. Este artículo, partiendo del contexto de los Estados Unidos, explora la aparición de la televisión distribuída por internet como un mecanismo que habilita y ofrece la distribución no lineal. Evalúa la organización inicial de la televisión distribuida por internet a través del análisis de portales y explora las similitudes y diferencias entre estos portales y las redes y canales, poniendo el foco en la conceptualización de las prácticas y estrategias de negocio emergentes.
Start Date: 04-2019
End Date: 12-2022
Amount: $340,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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End Date: 01-2025
Amount: $385,813.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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