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.

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara The Spring 2015 From the Field edition features articles on media policy, transnational television, and localized labor practices, in addition to many other recent articles by leading media industries scholars.

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.

Vol 2, No 1 Media Industries is an open-access peer reviewed journal supporting the critical study of media industries worldwide.

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.

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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!

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara The Winter 2015 edition of From the Field features the third inaugural issue of the Media Industries Journal, articles on the future of fan-ancing, and a special issue of Velvet Light Trap on media distribution.

Steve Kaplan from the Animation Guild discusses the challenges he confronts trying to organize visual effects artists in our latest Critical Conversations.

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara Steve Kaplan worked for years as a visual effects artist on feature films, TV shows, and commercials. He then joined The Animation Guild [Local 839] in 2010 to help organize the animation and visual effects fields. He has been instrumental in reaching out to members working in non-union studios as w…

In our most recent Things to Know, Derek Kompare critically examines how the art and culture of comics function industrially—from their origins as a distinctive subculture to their more recent mainstream success at the box office.

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara While Hollywood has been releasing adaptations of characters and stories that originated in comic books for many years, 2014 has seen the volume of this stream increase to a torrent. Two studios dominate this space at the moment, due to their corporate relationships with the two major comics publish…