Media Industries: Perspectives on an Evolving Field/Media Industries Collective

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Description This collection offers perspectives and insights from leading scholars across the field of media industry studies. Media Industries is a peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access online journal that supports critical studies of media industries and institutions worldwide. We invite contributions that range across the full spectrum of media industries, including film, television, internet, radio, music, publishing, gaming, advertising, and mobile communications. The journal's authors are encouraged to explore a range of industry-related processes, such as production, distribution, infrastructure, policy, exhibition, and retailing. Contemporary or historical studies may explore industries individually or examine inter-medial relations between industrial sectors employing qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodologies; of primary importance is that submissions adopt a critical perspective. This book collects Media Industries Volume 1 Issues #1-3, featuring essays by members of our esteemed editorial board. About the author Amelia Arsenault is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Georgia State University. Her scholarly work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, International Sociology, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Information, Communication, and Society. Alisa Perren is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. She is co-editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (University of Texas Press, 2012). More information on the Media Industries Journal can be found at: http: //mediaindustriesjournal. org