Media Industries is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide.

Current Issue: Vol. 5, No. 2

Articles

Commissioning and Producing Public-Service Content: British Arts Television

Caitriona Noonan (Cardiff University)

The Fan/Creator Alliance: Social Media, Audience Mandates, and the Rebalancing of Power in Studio-Showrunner Disputes

Annemarie Navar-Gill (University of Michigan)

Special Section: Global Internet Television

This special section was edited by Ramon Lobato (RMIT University), Amanda D. Lotz (University of Michigan), and Julian Thomas (RMIT University). Special sections are coordinated on a rotating basis by members of the journal’s editorial collective.

Internet-Distributed Television Research: A Provocation

Amanda D. Lotz (University of Michigan), Ramon Lobato (RMIT University), and Julian Thomas (RMIT University)

HBO’s e-EUtopia

Aniko Imre (University of Southern California)

Web TV as a Public Service: The Case of Stream.cz, the East-Central European Answer to YouTube

Dorota Vašíčková (Charles University) and Petr Szczepanik (Charles University)

Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space

Lindiwe Dovey (SOAS University of London)

Creating Children’s Television for SVODs: The Alignment of Global Production Practices with National Screen Policies in the Netflix Original Bottersnikes and Gumbles

Anna Potter (University of the Sunshine Coast)

Netflix and the Reconfiguration of the Australian Television Market

Graeme Turner (University of Queensland)

Games without Frontiers: Streaming Sports and the Evolution of Digital Intermediaries

Steven Secular (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Reviews

Reviews are edited by Nedda Ahmed (Georgia State University) and Shady Patterson (Georgia State University).

Book Review: Popular Music as Promotion: Music and Branding in the Digital Age

Review by Landon Palmer (University of Tampa)

Book Review: (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Review by Austin Morris (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Book Review: The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production

Review by Kathleen Farrell (Colby-Sawyer College)

Book Review: Localising Hollywood

Review by Ryan Stoldt (University of Iowa)

Book Review: The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

Review by Michael Van Esler (University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh)

Book Review: Republic on the Wire: Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984

Review by Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University)