Media Industries, founded in 2014, is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide. The journal represents an international collaboration among ten universities on four different continents. Administrative and editorial processes are managed by leading faculty members – “the editorial collective” – from these institutions. As noted in an essay by founding members and UCSB Film and Media Studies faculty members Jennifer Holt and Michael Curtin, Media Industries “invite[s] contributions that examine the full spectrum of media industries, including but not limited to film, television, internet, radio, music, publishing, gaming, advertising, animation, merchandising, and mobile communications. Submissions may explore these industries individually or examine intermedial relations between industrial sectors through a diverse array of theoretical and methodological approaches ranging from media law and policy to labor studies, from cultural studies to political economy, and everywhere in between. We encourage contemporary and historical studies and are especially interested in contributions that draw attention to global and international perspectives that produce genuinely insightful comparative studies. The journal is furthermore dedicated to the exploration of inventive methodologies, imaginative theoretical approaches, creative uses of the online publishing format, and new research directions.”