Keynote
Keynote Roundtable: The Stakes and Methods for Studying the Media Industries
Why does studying the media industries matter? What types of questions should we ask about the media industries and how should we go about researching them? How can scholars based in Southern California best leverage their proximity to one of the world’s capitols of entertainment? And how can media industries research—often focused on Hollywood and the U.S.—extend to other nations, cultures, and industries? Our Closing Roundtable on “The Stakes and Methods for Studying the Media Industries” seeks to address these questions and more by bringing together scholars who research the contemporary media industries. Nitin Govil (UC San Diego), Jennifer Holt (UC Santa Barbara), and Toby Miller (UC Riverside) will participate in this exciting Roundtable moderated by Ellen Seiter (USC).
Roundtable Participants
Nitin Govil teaches comparative media and cultural studies at the University of California, San Diego. A co-author of Global Hollywood (2001) and Global Hollywood 2 (2005), he has also published articles on cultural politics and media technology, globalization and the media industries, and film piracy across local and global contexts. He is currently working on a book on Hollywood in India and a co-authored book on the Indian film industries.
Jennifer Holt is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Film and Media Studies Department. She specializes in the study of media industries and regulatory policy. She is the co-editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, Method (Blackwell, 2009) and has published articles in various journals and anthologies including Film Quarterly, Film & History, Quality Popular Television (BFI, 2003) and Media Ownership: Research and Regulation (Hampton Press, 2007). Her forthcoming book Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers University Press) is a contemporary history of media deregulation from the Reagan Era through the Telecommunications Act.
Toby Miller works at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Cultural Citizenship (2007), Makeover Nation (2008) The Contemporary Hollywood Reader (2009), and Television Studies–The Basics (2010)
Moderator: Ellen Seiter is Stephen K. Nenno Chair in Television Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Internet Playground: Childen’s Access, Entertainment and Mis-education (Peter Lang 2005), Television and New Media Audiences (Oxford,1999), Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture (Rutgers, 1993). Her new project is a co-authored book on IP law for media artists, The Creative Artist’s Guide to the Art of Law, forthcoming from Yale University Press.