Media Industries in Crisis
Media Industries in Crisis

Author: Vicki Mayer

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-04-02

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1040013414

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This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries—examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis. With accounts from the frontlines, Media Industries in Crisis provides readers with a stakeholder framework, management lessons, and urgent commentaries to unpack the nature of crisis management and communications. The authors show how these industries have not only survived, but often thrive amidst a backdrop of critical national and regional emergencies, wars, financial meltdowns, and climate disasters. This international collection—featuring case studies from 16 countries—examines how media industries managed all of these crises, successfully rebranding themselves as “essential” while making power plays in politics, economics, and culture. The chapters reveal key lessons for the meltdowns, tectonic shifts, and struggles ahead. This collection will be of interest to media and communication students, particularly those focused on media industries, crisis communications, and management, as well as to practitioners working in media industries.

European Media in Crisis
European Media in Crisis

Author: Josef Trappel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1317482263

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When the financial markets collapsed in 2008, the media industry was affected by a major slump in advertising revenues, and a formerly highly successful business model fell into a state of decay. This economic crisis has threatened core social values of contemporary democracies, such as freedom, diversity and equality. Taking a normative and policy perspective, this book discusses threats and opportunities for the media industry in Europe: What are the implications of the crisis for professional journalism, the media industry, and the process of political communication? Can non- state and non-market actors profit from the crisis? And what are media policy answers at the national and European level?

Political Economy of Media Industries
Political Economy of Media Industries

Author: Randy Nichols

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0429890443

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This book provides a critical political economic examination of the impact of increasingly concentrated global media industries. It addresses different media and communication industries from around the globe, including film, television, music, journalism, telecommunication, and information industries. The authors use case studies to examine how changing methods of production and distribution are impacting a variety of issues including globalization, environmental devastation, and the shifting role of the State. This collection finds communication at a historical moment in which capitalist control of media and communication is the default status and, so, because of the increasing levels of concentration globally allows those in control to define the default ideological status. In turn, these concentrated media forces are deployed under the guise of entertainment but with a mind towards further concentration and control of the media apparatuses many times in convergence with others

Journalism in Crisis
Journalism in Crisis

Author: Mike Gasher

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2016-11-14

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1442625201

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Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology. Public policies have been central to the creation and shaping of Canada’s media system and, rather than wait for new technologies or economic models, the contributors offer concrete recommendations for how public policies can foster journalism that can support democratic life in twenty-first century Canada. Their work, which includes new theoretical perspectives and valuable discussions of journalism practices in public, private, and community media, should be read by professional and citizen journalists, academics, media activists, policy makers and media audiences concerned about the future of democratic journalism in Canada.

The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis
The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis

Author: Julien Mercille

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-27

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1317952111

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The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s aim has been to shift the burden of adjustment onto citizens. This book explains how and why, using a critical political economic perspective and focusing on the case of Ireland. Throughout, Ireland is compared with contemporary and historical examples to contextualise the arguments made. The book covers the housing bubble that led to the crash, the rescue of financial institutions by the state, the role of the European institutions and the International Monetary Fund, austerity, and the possibility of leaving the eurozone for Europe’s peripheral countries. Through a systematic analysis of Ireland’s main newspapers, it is argued that the media reflect elite views and interests and downplay alternative policies that could lead to more progressive responses to the crisis.

The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered
The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 110708525X

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This collection of original essays interrogates the 'crisis of journalism' narrative from a dramatically different perspective.

Media in China
Media in China

Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1317973372

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Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary collection draws on the expertise of industry professionals, academic experts and cultural critics. It offers a variety of perspectives on audio-visual industries in the world's largest media market. In particular, the contributors examine television, film, music, commercial and political advertising, and new media such as the internet and multimedia. These essays explore evolving audience demographies, new patterns of media reception in regional centres, and the gradual internationalization of media content and foreign investment in China's broadcasting industries. This book will of use to students and professionals involved in media and communication, as well as anyone interested in contemporary China.

OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDIA INDUSTRY POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC VOL1
OPPORTUNITIES IN MEDIA INDUSTRY POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC VOL1

Author: Dr. Amit Chawla

Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This book is designed to guide aspirants and beginners in the field of Mass Communication, especially those who are contemplating a professional career after the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea is to bring together media practitioners and eminent academicians from top media institutes so that they share their expertise and help newbies with available career choices in various sub-disciplines related to this field. The chapters in this book are written by top professors and scholars from SRFTI, AJK-MCRC Jamia Millia Islamia, IIMC, NIFT, Delhi University, Amity University, Sharda University, HP University, BIT - Durg, St. Xavier's - Kolkata, University of Technology & Applied Sciences – OMAN, etc.; and from industry practitioners affiliated with NDTV, IGNCA - Ministry of Culture, In shorts and many others.

Media Capture
Media Capture

Author: Anya Schiffrin

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0231548028

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Who controls the media today? There are many media systems across the globe that claim to be free yet whose independence has been eroded. As demagogues rise, independent voices have been squeezed out. Corporate-owned media companies that act in the service of power increasingly exercise soft censorship. Tech giants such as Facebook and Google have dramatically changed how people access information, with consequences that are only beginning to be felt. This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics of the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors including Emily Bell, Felix Salmon, Joshua Marshall, Joel Simon, and Nikki Usher analyze diverse cases of media capture worldwide—from the United Kingdom to Turkey to India and beyond—many drawn from firsthand experience. They examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and falling revenues for legacy media has led to new forms of control. Contributions also shed light on how the rise of right-wing populists has catalyzed the crisis of global media. They also chart a way forward, exploring the growing need for a policy response and sustainable models for public-interest investigative journalism. Providing valuable insight into today’s urgent threats to media independence, Media Capture is essential reading for anyone concerned with defending press freedom in the digital age.

Invisible Crises
Invisible Crises

Author: George Gerbner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0429979274

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According to the contributors to this volume, the communications media deliberately blank out critical conditions and developments whose imagery would pose unacceptable challenges to the dominant structures of culture-power. Such "invisible crises" include the suppression of information about the dehumanization and stigmatization of groups of people; the drift toward ecological suicide; the neglect of vital institutions such as public education and the arts; the way in which television corrupts the electoral process; and the promotion of practices which drug, poison and kill. The book asks why the media are, in the view of contributors, withholding vital information from the public, and focuses on the increasing concentration of culture-power that, it is argued, keeps these truths from public view.