Freeman, M: Industrial Approaches to Media

Introduction: Media Industry Studies - What and Why?.- SECTION I: The Ideologies & Ethics of Media Industry Studies.- 1.The Professional Ideologies of Academia and Industry. Case Study: The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Television in/and the Academy - Paul Kerr.- 2.The Politics and Ethics of Media Industry Studies. Case Study: On, With or For: Perspectives on Academic-Industry Collaborations - Elizabeth Evans and Paul McDonald.- SECTION II: The Theory & Practice of Media Industry Studies.- 3. Socialised Authorship: Conceptualising Media Industry Studies. Case Study: Industry as Author: Deconstructing Creativity - Michele Hilmes.- 4.Media Industries as Structure: Objectivism and the Societal Context. Case Study: The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights - Petros Iosifidis.- 5.Media Industries as Interaction: Constructivism and the Corporate Context. Case Study: Getting More Creative with Interviews - Sarah Ralph.- 6.Media Industries as Modality: Culturalism and the Discursive Context. Case Study: Researching Journalism through Social Media - Dave Harte.- SECTION III: The Reciprocity & Publishing of Media Industry Studies.- 7.Approaching Knowledge Exchange Case Study: The Need for Multiperspectival Work - Henry Jenkins.- 8.Publishing Media Industry Research. Case Study: Intellectual Collaboration and the Music Industry - Emily Caston.- Conclusion: Media Industry Studies - How and What Now?

Dr Matthew Freeman is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Bath Spa University, UK, where he is also Director of the Media Convergence Research Centre. The author of Historicising Transmedia Storytelling and the co-author of Transmedia Archaeology, his research explores production cultures across media and history, publishing on transmedia storytelling, media branding, and convergence cultures.