'Media Industries' Journal now online

Now online with its first issue, Media Industries is a new peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access online journal that supports critical studies of media industries and institutions worldwide. Topics will range across the full spectrum of media industries, including film, television, internet, radio, music, publishing, electronic games, advertising, and mobile communications.

"We encourage both contemporary and historical studies," said RTF Associate Professor Alisa Perren, co-Managing Editor and a member of the journal's editorial collective. "We are especially interested in contributions that draw attention to global and international perspectives, and use innovative methodologies, imaginative theoretical approaches, and new research directions."

With six institutions, including UT Austin, supporting the journal, an international group of media industries scholars comprise the Editorial Board, and the journal is maintained by a managing Editorial Collective. In addition to Perren, UT RTF professors Shanti Kumar, Joe Straubhaar, and Tom Schatz are members of the Editorial Board. Several RTF students and alumni are also involved: The Editorial Collective includes alumni Jennifer Holt (MA '95) and Kevin Sanson (PhD '11), and Amanda Lotz (PhD '00) and Yeidy Rivero (PhD '00) serve on the Editorial Board. PhD student Charlotte Howell is the Graduate Student Manager, handling key administrative matters, and incoming doctoral student (Fall 2014) Kyle Wrather is the Graduate Web Designer and Administrator.

Issue 1 is the first in a series of three issues to be published over the summer that features essays authored by the editorial board. Each of the board essays discusses the state of the field of media industries studies. Articles featured in this first issue include:

  • “Welcome to Media Industries” - written by the Editorial Collective: Amelia Arsenault, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Curtin, Terry Flew, Anthony Fung, Jennifer Holt, Paul McDonald, Brian McNair, Alisa Perren, and Kevin Sanson.
  • “Dirt Research For Media Industries” - Charles R. Acland
  • “Media Policy Research and the Media Industries” - Des Freedman
  • “The Value of Ethnography” - Tejaswini Ganti
  • “The Menace of Instrumentalism in Media Industries Research and Education” – David Hesmondhalgh
  • “Placing International Media Production” - Aphra Kerr
  • “On Automation in Media Industries: Integrating Algorithmic Media Production Into Media Industries Scholarship” - Philip Napoli
  • “Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Media Industry Studies” - Thomas Schatz
  • “Selling Television: Addressing Transformations in the International Distribution of Television Content” - Jeanette Steemers
  • “There Is No Music Industry” – Jonathan Sterne
  • “Globalization Through the Eyes of Runners: Student Interns as Ethnographers on Runaway Productions in Prague” – Petr Szczepanik
  • “The Case for Studying In-Store Media” - Joseph Turow
  • “Industry Proximity” – Patrick Vonderau

The journal is currently accepting submissions for future issues.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Website: mediaindustriesjournal.org
Email: mediaindjournal@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/mediaindustriesjournal
Twitter: twitter.com/mediaindjournal

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