See Also: MIP Team ¦ MIP Steering Committee
The Media Industries Project brings industry practitioners, policy experts, and leading scholars into lively dialogue on the future prospects of modern media. Focusing especially on digital media, globalization, and creative labor, the Project provides independent analysis of key trends and developments in media culture.
Based at the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the project works to:
- Create new forums for the study of media industries, bringing together researchers, educators, and industry practitioners
- Enhance public awareness of the issues, challenges, and operations of media industries
- Cultivate industry awareness of perspectives not covered in trade forums and market research
- Facilitate interactions between US and overseas media practitioners and scholars
- Develop and enhance classroom materials and course offerings on media industries
- Expand the field of media industries studies at universities in the US and abroad
Public understanding of the media industries is remarkably uneven given their centrality in our daily lives. Moreover, policy debates and industry behaviors are sometimes misguided due to a lack of impartial and credible information about key concerns. MIP combines industry perspectives and scholarly research to help frame public dialogue about the future of the media industries, focusing on areas such as:
- Audience practices and fan activity
- Creative practices and innovation
- Labor issues
- Distribution platforms and monetization
- Disruptive technologies
- Intellectual property
- Media access and equity
- Media policy and regulation
- Media ownership and market competition
- Runaway production
The link image on the Carsey-Wolf homepage that brings you to MIP is "Hollywood Sign Station Fire" by Anthony Citrano, an LA-based fashion photographer. It is licensed under a Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, Attribution license, and we thank Anthony for making it available.
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