Vejune Zemaityte

Vejune Zemaityte
Tallinn University | TLU · Baltic Film and Media School

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Dr Vejune Zemaityte is a Senior Research Fellow in Cultural Data Analytics in Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) working as part of the CUDAN Open Lab at Tallinn University. She uses computational and data visualisation techniques to study cultural and creative industries. Visit www.vejune-zemaityte.com for more information about Dr Zemaityte and www.cudan.tlu.ee for more information about the CUDAN Open Lab.
Additional affiliations
September 2019 - August 2020
RMIT University
Position
  • Research Officer
Description
  • Conducted behavioural experiments within Business Behavioural Lab to investigate what factors drive artists and creative practitioners in their career progression within the arts as part of RMIT Entrepreneurs Project.
July 2019 - December 2019
University of Melbourne
Position
  • Teaching Associate
Description
  • Researching Media and Communication (graduate); Internet Communication (undergraduate)
November 2018 - March 2019
University of Technology Sydney
Position
  • Research Assistant
Description
  • Data work for studies: R+AMP Engaging with Engagement crowdfunding research with Pozible; Honey, I Hid the Kids! on carers' role in cinema in Australia; #MeThree on gender role in global cinema; Gender Offender on women’s role in Australian theatre
Education
January 2015 - May 2019
Deakin University
Field of study
  • Communication & Media
September 2011 - July 2014
University College Roosevelt
Field of study
  • Economics, Psychology & Media

Publications

Publications (40)
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Film festivals are a key component in the global film industry in terms of trendsetting, publicity, trade, and collaboration. We present an unprecedented analysis of the international film festival circuit, which has so far remained relatively understudied quantitatively, partly due to the limited availability of suitable data sets. We use large-sc...
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In recent years, a renewed interest in how public service media (PSM) generate public value has emerged emphasizing how such value may express itself in multidimensional and nonlinear ways. However, little has been achieved in systematically studying these ways and providing evidence to policy makers. In this article, we propose that content divers...
Preprint
Audiovisual news is a critical cultural phenomenon that has been influencing audience worldviews for more than a hundred years. To understand historical trends in multimodal audiovisual news, we need to explore them longitudinally using large sets of data. Despite promising developments in film history, computational video analysis, and other relev...
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Like in much of the world, cinema screens in Australia are dominated by feature films from the US. Drawing on the Kinomatics Global Showtime Dataset, a big cultural dataset of cinema screenings, this chapter considers the diversity of films screened in Australian cinemas by examining not only the broad range of film titles on offer, but also what t...
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Australia has historically been an important market for American media exports. As far as film trade relations between the two countries go, there is an anecdotal perception that distributors follow a ‘10% rule’ to predict the popularity of Hollywood titles in Australia, expecting American films to earn around one-tenth of their domestic box office...
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Audiovisual news is a critical cultural phenomenon that has been influencing audience worldviews for more than a hundred years. To understand historical trends in multimodal audiovisual news, we need to explore them longitudinally using large sets of data. Despite promising developments in film history, computational video analysis, and other relev...
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This paper reports on a network-based investigation of the gendered nature of work in the screen sector. Using nine years of Australian film and television production data, we explore how the networks of project-based collaboration might explain the disparities in the career trajectories of men and women. Our analysis finds that projects with men a...
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Film festivals are a key component in the global film industry in terms of trendsetting, publicity, trade, and collaboration. We present an unprecedented analysis of the international film festival circuit, which has so far remained relatively understudied quantitatively, partly due to the limited availability of suitable data sets. We use large-sc...
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https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hysma/ In recent years a renewed interest has emerged in how public service media (PSM) generate public value, putting emphasis on how such value may express itself in multidimensional and non-linear ways. Yet, little has been achieved in systematically studying these ways and providing evidence to policymakers. In...
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The Kinomatics project (http://kinomatics.com) is an international, interdisciplinary project applying innovative digital practices to study creative industries, particularly the film industry. Kinomatics uses data-driven tools and methods to examine the social, cultural, and economic ‘relationality’ of film distribution as a complex, overlapping,...
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Studies of gender inequality in film industries have noted the persistence of male domination in creative roles (usually defined as director, producer, writer) and the slow pace of reform. Typical policy remedies are premised on aggregate counts of women as a proportion of overall industry participation. Network science offers an alternative way of...
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This panel considers how Cinema Studies and Digital Humanities can inform each other through examining the different ways that film distribution analysis extends aspects of critical infrastructure studies.
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This panel considers how Cinema Studies and Digital Humanities can inform each other through examining the different ways that film distribution analysis extends aspects of critical infrastructure studies.
Presentation
The #metoo movement has recently revived the long-lasting debate about the gender composition of film industries which touches upon the on-screen portrayal of genders (Kapoor, Bhuptani, & Agneswaran, 2017; Lindner, Lindquist, & Arnold, 2015; Smith, Choueiti, Pieper, Case, & Choi, 2018) as well as the effects of gender on participation in creative t...
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This article draws on a big cultural dataset of over 130 million global screen times to consider the impact that the gender of a film’s director has on the screening prevalence and geographic spread of new release feature films at the cinema. We compare results based on film screenings between December 2012 and May 2015 across a set of forty countr...
Thesis
The use of big data to investigate the contemporary film industry is an area of recent academic interest. This interest has led to the emergence of new interdisciplinary studies, such as this project, combining the fields of digital humanities, new cinema history, and cultural economics. More specifically, newly available film distribution datasets...
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This paper combines a Digital Humanities approach with Cultural Economics methods to study film industry data at a range of scales. It does this by examining international screening data at three levels of attention ranging from the most distant to the closest reading: the global focus, the country focus and the focus on two specific markets. It ma...
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This workshop will offer a short introduction to using Tableau for exploring datasets and visualising findings. Tableau is a visual analytics tool that offers users a simple and quick way to understand their data. Differently from other visualisation and analytics packages such as R, Tableau has a short learning curve as users do not have to learn...
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Statistics describing the parlous conditions for women in the Australian film industry have been gathered and circulated for more than 30 years. These statistics have barely deviated despite the development and application of a range of equity policies. In some instances the participation of women has become marginally worse. Furthermore, the repea...
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This study analyses international cinema distribution by examining screening records of 3,424 movies across 40 countries. It uses cluster analysis together with multiple regression to identify and then explore five distinct types of global film dissemination. International country-to-country cinema trade has been studied extensively. A number of...
Poster
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This poster presents highlights of my PhD thesis on international film circulation using the big data collection on movie screenings from the Kinomatics Project.
Conference Paper
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Statistics describing the inequitable conditions for women in global film industries have been gathered and circulated for more than 30 years. These statistics have barely deviated despite the development and application of a range of equity policies. In some instances the participation of women has become marginally worse. Furthermore, the repeate...
Presentation
This workshop will offer a short introduction to using Tableau for exploring datasets and visualising findings. Tableau is a visual analytics tool that offers users a simple and quick way to understand their data. Differently from other visualisation and analytics packages such as R, Tableau has a short learning curve as users do not have to learn...
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This study utilises the large dataset of global film screenings from the Kinomatics Project to analyse worldwide cinema dissemination. It uses cluster analysis together with the multiple regression techniques to identify and then explore five distinct types of global film distribution. While country-to-country cinema trade has been studied extensiv...
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While international cinema trade has been studied extensively, no work to date has examined global distribution beyond country borders. Instead of exploring media flows from production origins to importing markets, this paper analyses the shape of each film’s global theatrical run, combining information from 40 countries. The run is characterised b...
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Screenwriter William Goldman famously noted, “nobody knows anything…” (p. 39, 1983) when it comes to motion picture industry. And yes, it is extremely difficult to predict a movie’s performance in the home market, let alone its success abroad. However, as the film trade relationship between the USA and Australia goes, distributors have historically...
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Screenwriter William Goldman famously noted, “nobody knows anything…” (p. 39, 1983) when it comes to motion picture industry. And yes, it is extremely difficult to predict a movie’s performance in the home market, let alone its success abroad. However, as the film trade relationship between the US and Australia goes, distributors have historically...
Poster
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This poster outlines research questions for the PhD thesis titled ’International Film Flow: Tendencies in Contemporary Film Distribution.’ It also describes the employed Kinomatics data set listing all film screenings in 46 countries around the world in the last 2.5 years. Finally, it proposes a method of data analysis.
Presentation
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The presentation described the research design of my PhD thesis titled ’International Film Flow: Tendencies in Contemporary Film Distribution’ as well as introduced a case study of Top 20 most screened films in the Kinomatics data set listing all film screenings in 46 countries around the world in the last 2.5 years in order to illustrate the metho...
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Australian cinema screens are dominated by features from the US. This is nothing new and is reflected in both the volume of distinct first release feature titles that make it onto our screens as well as in the level of saturation revealed by show-time data. However, in recent years the total number of films making it onto Australian cinema screens...
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Violent and aggressive behavior towards clinical staff, other patients and material is a common issue in psychiatric care in the Netherlands. Aggression involves forms of behavior that cause pain or damage to property, including: verbal, threatening, and humiliating aggressive behavior; provocative aggressive behavior; threatening and destructive p...
Conference Paper
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Violent and aggressive behavior towards clinical staff, other patients and material is a common issue in psychiatric care in the Netherlands. Aggression involves forms of behavior that cause pain or damage to property, including: verbal, threatening, and humiliating aggressive behavior; provocative aggressive behavior; threatening and destructive p...
Poster
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Film Studies, Cultural Economics and other fields constitute strong research body on film popularity. Most of the studies so far have tried to establish the popularity of an existing movie or to predict the success of a future film, simultaneously examining multiple movies. However, few scholars attempted to explain the popularity of a single alrea...
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Film Studies, Cultural Economics and other fields constitute strong research body on film popularity. Most of the studies so far have tried to establish the popularity of an existing movie or to predict the success of a future film, simultaneously examining multiple movies. However, few scholars attempted to explain the popularity of a single alrea...

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