Watching the Internet - the future of TV?

This book deals with the Internet’s influence on television. The traditional value chain has been transformed, giving rise to new forms of television that foster user generated content. We no longer dream about interactivity but participation. Accordingly, the ‘digital natives’ like to tag programmes and films by voting, sharing, collaborating, remixing and distributing media content. Indeed, television may become a web of interactive programmes by the cyberspace, each conveniently tagged so that other users can find it. Although many questions have yet to be answered, this decade’s motto may be ‘the tag is the medium’. However, on-demand television is unlikely to replace mass TV. The Web 2.0 has brought an end to the ‘my TV’ concept of the dotcom age and may put ‘our TV’ in its place. Focusing on the social and economic implications of this transformation, the book provides a critical perspective on the emerging of new television forms of audiovisual entertainment, while simultaneously it brings the debate on the future of TV medium. It is a timely contribution to the audiovisual industry.

Managing Media Economy, Media Content and Technology in the Age of Digital Convergence

This book analyses the media industry's external and internal environment. In summary, it features 21 papers, written by 33 authors and representing 13 different countries, underlining the complex and multifaceted nature of media economics, business and industry. The authors have defined in great detail more than 130 highly relevant media business and technology terms and concepts while citing in their papers about 720 books, monographs, articles and research papers.

News Factors in International Reporting

Although the ‘Dili Massacre’ is considered a watershed event in the annals of East Timor, the analysis of its press coverage is still largely overlooked. This book  compares  the  British  and  Portuguese  broadsheet coverage of  the shooting of  demonstrators by Indonesian troops at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, the  capital  of   East  Timor.  Drawing on earlier research in the field, this study presents an alternative conceptual model of news factors that allows for an appraisal of press performance in foreign reporting. The model assesses the weight of news factors in determining both the newsworthiness and the orientation of the coverage pointing to the interplay of news values and, in particular, the influence of intramedia considerations, in determining the coverage of the November 12 (1991) episode and in justifying the differences between the Portuguese and British reporting, and the influence of  national perspective marked by ‘cultural bias’ or ‘public patriotism’.

Globalization and Pluralism

Public television in Europe is going through one of the greatest crises in its history. The economic problems are not only determining severe measures among private broadcasters but also prompting a debate about what the functions of public television should be. The purpose of this book is to examine the ownership, production, programs and contents of public and commercial television in various European countries.

Value Creation and the Future of the News Organizations

Why and how are news organizations changing? With the drive for low costs and low prices, how can the news industry create value to ensure its survival in the digital environment? Most of the contemporary challenges faced by news organizations result from changes in the media environment and media markets that have reduced the value of news and information and disrupted the existing business models of news producers. Many of these changes are the outcome of technological development.