The Media Industries Project provides timely commentary, independent analysis, and innovative resources for multiple audiences: practitioners, academics, news organizations, and the general public.


Connected Viewing Initiative

A large-scale research initative in collaboration with Warner Bros., CVI focuses on digital distribution, cloud storage technologies, and multiple screen exhibition practices. 

Representing Rights: Media, Modernity, and Politics in Afghanistan

We’ve begun fundraising for a project in Afghanistan to archive and analyze some 40,000 hours of television programming. The archive will serve as the foundation for a series of events, conferences, curriculum, and outreach activities in Santa Barbara and Kabul. 

Things to Know: A Primer on Significant Issues

Things To Know provides readers with a concise, yet comprehensive, analysis of the most significant issues affecting the media industries.

The Buzz: A Guide to Trending News

The Buzz distills media coverage to its essence: what you need to read from the best sources out there. 

From the Bookshelf: A Growing Archive of Media Industries Scholarship

From the Bookshelf is a collection of notable book-length contributions to the discipline. 

From the Field: A Growing Archive of Media Industries Scholarship

From the Field is a guide to the latest, most relevant scholarship from a range of academic journals.

AOL-HuffPo Merger: An Independent Analysis

MIP analyzed more than five hundred press reports and blog postings about the merger, and surveyed a select sample of HuffPo’s most frequent bloggers.