Industrial Approaches to Media A Methodological Gateway to Industry
This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals. While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universit
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A METHODOLOGICAL GATEWAY TO INDUSTRY STUDIES
Industrial Approaches to Media
Matthew Freeman
Industrial Approaches to Media A Methodological Gateway to Industry Studies
Matthew Freeman Bath Spa University Bath, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-55175-7 ISBN 978-1-137-55176-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55176-4
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FOREWORD: MEDIA INDUSTRY STUDIES IN PRACTICE
Media industry studies certainly has come a long way. Roughly a decade ago, when we began drafting the introduction to our edited collection, Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method, Jennifer Holt and I observed that there remained ‘a dearth of formal gatherings and conferences for those researching the media industries, as well as an absence of journals or anthologies devoted specifically to the study of media industries as a coherent discipline’ (2009: 1). Oh, how things have changed. As of this writing in early 2016, the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) has a Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group as does the International Communication Association (ICA).1 There is a now an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Media Industries, and several universities, including University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (with its Media Industries Project) and the University of Nottingham (with its Institute
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