Media Industries Project

The Spring 2015 edition of From the Field is now live! This edition features articles on media policy, transnational television, and localized labor practices, in addition to many other recent articles by leading media industries scholars.

Make sure to give the first peer reviewed issue of Media Industries a read!! It covers a broad media industries landscape and features the following scholars and essays: Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew - "Reconsidering Media Economics: From Orthodoxies to Heterodoxies" Sergio Sparviero - "Hollywood Creative Accounting: The Success Rate of Major Motion Pictures" Danny Kimball - "Sponsored Data and Net Neutrality: Exemption and Discrimination in the Mobile Broadband Industry"... Myles McNutt - "Mobile Production: Spatialized Labor, Location Professionals, and the Expanding Geography of Television Production" Colleen Montgomery - "Cartoon Wasteland: Remediating and Recommodifying Archival Media in Disney’s Epic Mickey" As you enjoy these essays, note that the journal is still accepting submissions for our second issue of Volume 2! http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org/

Issue 2.1 of the Media Industries journal is now live. This is the first peer-reviewed issue, with several members of the MIP team serving as the editors. Check it out below.

We're seeking qualified candidates for the Research Director position at the Media Industries Project. Please distribute the following job post amongst friends and colleagues. https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00471

Our interview with VFX artist Dave Rand takes you inside Rhythm & Hues (Life of Pi) during its final days--a rare, personal account of Southern California's dwindling VFX industry. http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu//article/interview-dave-rand

In case you missed it during SCMS, catch up on our Winter 2015 edition of From the Field, featuring work on historical media industry studies, crowdfunding, and media distribution!