Monthly Archives: May 2011

Session 3: Digital audiences From Viewer to Participant Lizzie Jackson, BBC In July 2006 the BBC re-organised its Divisions to deliver the ‘Creative Future’, launching two Production groups, ‘BBC Vision’ and ‘BBC Audio and Music’, and placing ‘Marketing, communication and … Continue reading →

In April 2006 the BBC announced Creative Future, its five-year strategic plan. One of the earliest and most significant reforms to be implemented, in the July of that year, was a profound organisational restructure to ‘enable 360 degree commissioning and … Continue reading →

Digital devices like the DVR and video iPod, as well as alternative distribution models like video-on-demand, DVD box sets, and the iTunes digital download service, collectively comprise the infrastructure around which today’s serialized television narratives are constructed. Scholars and journalists … Continue reading →

The possibilities of a digital aesthetic Dr. Karen Lury, University of Glasgow This paper will address two aspects relating to a possible ‘aesthetics’ of digital television. Firstly, I will discuss the effects of digital broadcasting. The proliferation of channels has … Continue reading →

Joined up thinking for the digital age: Little Kids TV in a multiplatform world Jeanette Steemers and James Walters, Westminster University The children’s television production sector has not been having an easy time in the UK. Producers often talk about … Continue reading →

Dislocated Screens: The Place of Television in a Mobile Digital Culture William Boddy, Baruch College, City University of New York This paper addresses the uncertain status of traditional domestic television within an unstable and rapidly-changing media landscape marked by proliferating … Continue reading →

Plenary “User-Generated Content/Producer-Generated Consumption: How Outsourcing, Crowd-sourcing, and Industrial Identity Theory Fuel Digital TV” John T. Caldwell, UCLA Many media theorists have over-sold viewer-centrism as a defining characteristic of new media consumption. This paper offers a series of correctives to … Continue reading →