Media Industries Project

Our latest Bookshelf highlights Arlene Davila and Yeidy M. Rivero’s new collection Contemporary Latina/o Media, which grapples with the shifting industrial formations, audience configurations, and labor practices in the transnational Latina/o media sphere—issues pertinent to media industry studies writ large.

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara Given that most scholarly work on Latino media tends towards analyses of representations, the collection Contemporary Latina/o Media seeks to redress this emphasis by looking behind the scenes at changing industrial formations as well as their effects on media labor and audiences. As editors Arlene…

What is a network in the post-network era? Aymar Jean Christian maps the diverse business strategies of web television, from streaming video-on-demand sites to DIY productions, in the most recent Things to Know.

http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/mip/article/web-tv-networks-challenge-linear-business-models

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara Most people find web TV – television programming served exclusively via Internet protocols – hard to grasp. Typically it’s because they have not considered how “networks” function differently outside the legacy cable system.