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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Media Industries"”.
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#MeToo media and Hollywood: challenging sexual violence in film and television and the limits of media industries
Ever since bombshell news reports exposed media mogul Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator in 2017, there has been an influx of narrative film and television texts that address the #MeToo movement—both implicitly and explicitly—in their narratives. Taken together, these texts make up a distinct …
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"Fire, lights, everything!" : exploring symbolic capital in the Tecnobrega dance scene
The music industry, along with the world of media as a whole, is in a state of transition. What is being sold is not so clear anymore, nor is it obvious what parts of the traditional business will survive. Audiences play a crucial role in these shifts; they've become empowered and increased their …
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Home and away: The tourist, the flâneur and everyday life
… a close relationship between the tourism and media industries. Representations produced by the media industries act to both reinforce established discursive notions of 'other' places and peoples and to bring many representations of the touristic into everyday life. The ready availability of …
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We are in Convergence: Intergenerational Synergies in Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Franchises
In the twenty-first century, children’s media and entertainment is big business. In a media landscape increasingly dominated by franchised media and entertainment, the media industries of the twenty-first century are increasingly turning to children’s media content as a means of generating secure …
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The Rise of Independent Bookselling in China
… my thesis adds to the political economy of the media industry in non-Western societies and contributes to the de-Westernization of this long-dominant and yet problematic approach to the study of the media and media industries.
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The spirit of networks: new media and the changing role of religion in American public life
… of Networks examines the implications of new media for the future of American religious politics. I argue that we are at a critical juncture in both media and religion, similar to the early days of radio broadcasting. The outcome of that earlier juncture involved an increase in media …
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Same song, new dance: analyzing market structure and competition in the digital music aggregation industry
… paradigm shifts across a broad spectrum of mass media industries. This study examines an innovative new market segment in the music recording industry: digital music aggregation. Digital music aggregators are music distributors that directly connect artists, any creator of musical content, to …
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Storytending is a Verb! Activating Participatory Feminist Media Praxis Through Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities
… The project brings together scholars, musicians, media-makers, performers, artists, and activists to explore the role of women and popular music in cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. It encompasses three interwoven components: Teaching: project-based …
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Local Media and the Olympic Bidding Process: A political economic analysis of Calgary’s 1988 and 2026 Olympic pursuits
… changes to the political economy of the local media industry impact public opinion by analyzing two case studies: Calgary’s successful bid for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games and the city’s failed bid exploration for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Olympic Games embody a melange …
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Creative industries policy and practice. a study of BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen
This thesis examines creative industries policy in film and television in Scotland. It explores the impact that different approaches to creative industries policy have on creative practice in two media industries, BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen, and reflects on how each of these bodies …
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"Mobilizing ""Asian American"": rhetoric and ethnography of Asian American media organizations"
… or if so negatively, in the mainstream media and not through their own accord. As a result, popular images of emasculated or villainous Asian American males, submissive or sexually threatening Asian American females prevail as the most salient representations. However, Asian American …
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Bangladeshi Political Cartoons as Visual Rhetoric in the Context of Anti-Free Speech Laws
… of speech laws, and provides implications for media industries facing legal challenges.
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Feeling devalued: the creative industries, motherhood, gender and class inequality
… data that illustrates how work in the creative media industries is marked by bleak inequalities. Critical sociological accounts of the industry have explored the barriers to employment opportunities for workers from different ethnic, disabled, gendered and more recently socially classed …
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Orienting fandom: the discursive production of sports and speculative media fandom in the Internet era
… of the changing relationship between media industry and audiences after the Internet. Because fans have traditionally been associated with an especially participatory relationship to the object of fandom, the shift to a norm of media interactivity would seem to position the fan as the …
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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media
<p>Media is a constant, persistent force in human lives that informs and influences through published, broadcasted, and digitally mediated formats. Mass media industries produce and distribute content consumed by diverse audiences, though the facilitators represent only a fraction of the …
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Men’s Fashion in the Twenty-First Century: Contestation, Inclusive Masculinity, and the Body
… in Western European menswear and fashion media from the turn of the millennium to 2021. The significance of the slender male body in fashion representation is examined in the context of shifting corporeal ideals and emerging image-making practices. The publications gathered in this thesis …
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Runaway film production: A critical history of Hollywood's outsourcing discourse
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VFX – A New Frontier: The Impact of Innovative Technology on Visual Effects
… are an increasingly important element of the media content demanded by audiences, of media production (filmmaking and storytelling) and of the media industries, VFX remains a relatively under-research area within academic media or film studies. Innovations in technology are instrumental to the …
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Contexts of Short Animated Documentary Production in the United Kingdom
… by both the formal systems of the commercial media industries and the informal systems of social interaction and identity. As objects of cultural capital, films carry, through their production histories, the traces of the exchange of other forms of capital – symbolic and economic. By analysing …
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Nelvana Animation: Shifting Labour Conditions, Digital Tools and Their Influence on the Design of 2D Children’s Animated Series
This research-creation project is supported by a theoretical paper overviewing the history of Nelvana Limited, the studio's economic growth and how the introduction of digital tools has impacted the aesthetic narrative of children’s animation. Applying the observations of cultural theorist …
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