Lucy Kueng

University of Oxford | OX · Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)

The popular video streaming services are complex technological and economic systems, comprising parts that have not received much scholarly attention. We provide an overview of the main technologies used when streaming television from production to the viewers, the main players that are involved, and the revenue flows between them. Our case is Netf...

Technology is placing new demands on the media industry. Creative output is no longer simply the content itself, but the ‘containers’ in which it appears. Media industry leaders and practitioners must now understand the strategic importance of technology in all its dimensions. Yet more than this, they must be able to make the necessary – and often...

The field of media management has grown frenetically. Over the past ten years a rash of courses have sprung up all over the world, two journals have been established, as well as two professional associations for academics working in the field. Yet despite—or perhaps because of—this fast growth it remains a confused field, particularly concerning it...

Eine zentrale Aufgabe aller strategischen Aktivitäten eines Unternehmens besteht in der Sicherung seiner nachhaltigen Existenz und zwar vor allem angesichts der Entwicklungen in seiner Ökologie, d. h. in seinem politischen, sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und technologischen Umfeld. Das derzeitige strategische Umfeld weist drei spezifische Gefahren für...

It is broadly agreed that the dramatic technological advances of the past decade, particularly the advent of the Internet, have ushered in a new era for management and organisational theory. Literature, whether scholar or practitioner orientated, is peppered with references to the “new economy” which, it is commonly agreed, represents a fundamental...

This chapter explores the effect on the Internet on organisations in the media sector from the perspective of theories of strategy and organisation. By extension its focus is the media organisation itself, specifically the interrelated phenomena of strategy, structure, processes and business models. As such it covers a terrain that is at once very...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Internet on media and mediated content industries. It explores and discusses the changes this emergent communications platform is engendering for the media and content industries and the implications of those changes. Its contents are drawn from the findings of a five-year EU sponsored...

Strategic Management in the Media Industry: Theory and Practice aims to provide a comprehensive, accessible and expert introduction to strategy within a media management context. It is divided into two parts - part one proves an introduction to and overview of the media industry from a strategic management perspective, looking in detail at the sect...

http://www.mediajournal.org/index.php/jmm/issue/view/30 Welcome to a new issue of JMM – The International Journal on Media Management. In this issue we have a distinguished group of authors, whose collected articles mainly cluster around the challenges arising from new digital media for the content industry. Through new services, technologies, and...

The world’s media, telecommunications and information technology industries are undergoing a period of unprecedented and profound change. Dramatic technological advances combined with market liberalisation and globalisation have together engendered the “digital revolution.” A dramatic consequence of this is “convergence,” a ubiquitous but loosely d...