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The social organism : a radical understanding of social media to transform your business and life
\"From visionary tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett and MIT Media Lab's Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media-- how it works, how it's changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit ... Luckett and Casey offer a revolutionary theory: social networks-- to an astonishing degree --mimic the rules and functions of biological life. In sharing and replicating packets of information known as memes, the world's social media users are facilitating an evolutionary process just like the transfer of genetic information in living things. Memes are the basic building blocks of our culture, our social DNA. To master social media-- and to make online content that impacts the world --you must start with the social organism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Value Gap
How female directors, producers, and writers navigate
the challenges and barriers facing female-driven projects at each
stage of filmmaking in contemporary Hollywood.
Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in
the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to
broader systemic problems of employment disparities and
exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo
revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change.
The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across
development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and
distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the
industry during this transformative moment. Drawing from five years
of extensive interviews with female producers, writers, and
directors at different stages of their careers, Courtney Brannon
Donoghue examines how Hollywood business cultures \"value\"
female-driven projects as risky or not bankable. Industry claims
that \"movies targeting female audiences don't make money\" or \"women
can't direct big-budget blockbusters\" have long circulated to
rationalize systemic gender inequities and have served to normalize
studios prioritizing the white male-driven status quo. Through a
critical media industry studies lens, The Value Gap
challenges this pervasive logic with firsthand accounts of women
actively navigating the male-dominated and conglomerate-owned
industrial landscape.
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Hollywood : a very short introduction
\"Peter Decherney tells the story of Hollywood, from its nineteenth-century origins to the emergence of internet media empires. Using well-known movies, stars, and directors, the book shows that the elements we take to be a natural part of the Hollywood experience--stars, genre-driven storytelling, blockbuster franchises, etc.--are the product of cultural, political, and commercial forces\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Broadcasting Hollywood
Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films on
Early Television uses extensive archival research into the
files of studios, networks, advertising agencies, unions and
guilds, theatre associations, the FCC, and key legal cases to
analyze the tensions and synergies between the film and television
industries in the early years of television. This analysis of the
case study of the struggle over Hollywood's feature films appearing
on television in the 1940s and 1950s illustrates that the notion of
an industry misunderstands the complex array of
stakeholders who work in and profit from a media sector, and models
a variegated examination of the history of media industries.
Ultimately, it draws a parallel to the contemporary period and the
introduction of digital media to highlight the fact that history
repeats itself and can therefore play a key role in helping media
industry scholars and practitioners to understand and navigate
contemporary industrial phenomena.
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Interactive journalism : hackers, data, and code
\"Traditional journalism faces the growing reality that the news business model remains an unsolvable problem. Audiences can go anywhere at any time. Technological and computing advances offer opportunities to explore on web and mobile beyond what has ever been possible before, thanks to an explosion in programming knowledge. The infrastructure and experience of information delivery has evolved to seemingly erase time and space boundaries. This larger setting for news, bound up in changes to economics, technology and culture, has created the conditions for a new subspecialty of the journalism profession to emerge: interactive journalism. In Interactive Journalism, Nikki Usher brings together a comprehensive theoretical and empirical portrait of this subspeciality. Beginning with a theoretical overview of professionalism, Usher provides a comprehensive history of fields that come together to define interactive journalism: computer assisted reporting, photojournalism and graphics. She then moves from the people behind interactive journalism to the work that these journalists do to the special abstract knowledge they provide the profession. With vignettes from across the world, she takes us from in-depth look at Al Jazeera English interactive creation to the BBC to the Guardian's data desk to the New York Times. Interactive Journalism illuminates the professions, people, work and knowledge of a subspeciality that has emerged in the age of the rise of digital culture as a possible answer to the decline and fall of traditional journalism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Towards a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology adoption in various industries in developing and emerging economies: a systematic review
The fast growth and wide range of applications of blockchain (BC) technology in various industries is irrefutable. Generally, BC technology is still in at an infant stage but it has generated significant interests in many sectors and industries. Nonetheless, despite an uptake of interest on the application of BC technology, the extent of its adoption in various industries in many countries remains partially understood. This paper aims to assess the current status of research on adoption of BC technology in various industries, particularly in developing and emerging economies. This study systematically reviewed the applied theories and models, adoption factors considered in each study, benefits, barriers and challenges of BC adoption intention in different industries from 86 articles published in the past five years from 2019 to end of June 2023. Findings showed several popular adoption models such as the Technology Acceptance Model, Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and Task Technology Fit in the reviewed articles. Benefits, barriers and challenges were evident from each of the industries, implying the need to further understand BC adoption and application in these industries. This review also identifies a few research gaps and provides recommendations for future researches.
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Bangladesh cinema and national identity : in search of the modern?
\"Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh, providing a narrative of the uneven process that produced the idea of 'Bangladesh cinema'. This book investigates the roles of a non-western 'national' film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. The political and economic forces and the cultural institutions that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema are presented. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond. In particular, he illustrates the connections between film production and reception in Bangladesh and a variety of nationalist constructions of Bengali Muslim identity. Drawing on the idea of cinema as public sphere and the postcolonial notion of formation of the 'Bangladesh' nation, interactions between cinema and middle-class Bengali Muslims in different social and political matrices are analysed. The first major academic study on this large and vibrant national cinema, this book demonstrates that Bangladesh national cinema worked as different 'public spheres' for different 'publics' throughout the twentieth century. Filling a niche in Global Film and Media Studies and South Asian Studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of these disciplines\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Rationalising creative uncertainty? The negotiated use of audience feedback in Danish film production
In this article, I examine how the use of audience feedback in film production shapes creative decision-making. While existing scholarship often views audience data as a rationalising tool that reduces risk and economic uncertainty, little research has explored how such practices function within creative processes. Drawing on an empirical case study from the Danish film production culture, where a novel audience research initiative institutionalises interfacing with proxy audiences at the early stage of script development, I analyse how filmmakers negotiate the integration of audience insights. The analysis finds that audience research does not dissolve uncertainty, as the creative uncertainty of translating feedback into concrete creative action persists. This is underlined by the negotiated nature of the process, where filmmakers selectively filter and resist audience input, often privileging their creative vision over audience sentiment. These insights nuance prevailing claims about the predictive capacity of data-driven production and demonstrate that the negotiation between creativity and audience data is a contested feature of contemporary media production.
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Goodbye iSlave : a manifesto for digital abolition
\"Welcome to a brave new world of profit making, propelled by high technology, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of workers. These millions of bodies gather in gigantic factory complexes to produce coveted commodities--iPhones, iPads, and other gadgets--for consumers worldwide. Yet, at these same factories, working conditions are notoriously oppressive, to the point that a number of employees there have committed suicide. In this study, Jack Linchuan Qiu examines systems of domination, exploitation, and alienation in an era of information technology, global connectivity, and individual consumerism engineered by corporations in collusion with national and regional state authorities. Focusing on notorious Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn, Qiu conceptually develops the idea of iSlavery and the planetary Apple-Foxconn alliance he calls Appconn. Beginning with historical and legal explorations of slavery, he compares conditions of Foxconn workers to those of 17th century transatlantic slaves. Moving on from labor issues, he turns to fanatic consumption of digital media and argues that compulsive free labor contributions to commodity cycles constitute another form of iSlavery. Qiu relies on interviews, news analysis, and first-hand observation to clarify the circumstances faced by Foxconn workers and examine how a transborder working-class civil society was mobilized. He analyzes how media play a role in shaping public opinion and influencing corporate and state policies, ultimately affecting the fate of workers at the very bottom of the problematic new international division of labor\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Televisual Authorship and Comedy Showrunners: The Case of Greg Daniels
The article focuses on Greg Daniels, the acclaimed comedy showrunner whose credits include the US version of The Office (NBC, 2005-2013) as well as King of the Hill (Fox, 1997-2010), Space Force (Netflix, 2020-2022), and Upload (Amazon, 2020-). The author analyses press and podcast interviews with Daniels and his co-workers, as well as other articles connected to the showrunner and his works, supplementing them with quotes from a previously unpublished in-depth interview. The central emphasis lies on Daniels’s creative methods, situated within the broader context of television and streaming shows authorship. The sources are interpreted with the help of methods characteristic of the critical media industry studies and utilize Jason Mittell’s model of authorship by management.
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