Masterclass on media industries
This Masterclass will outline the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches to studying and thinking about media concentration in the age of the Internet, digital platforms and smartphones. It will do so primarily about the tools and approaches used by scholars participating in the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. Its main goal will be to introduce these tools and to review some of the findings concerning the telecoms and internet industries, traditional and online media services, and core internet applications. It will introduce the scaffolding method we use by which we start with micro-level industry analysis, group these into three higher level, mid-range categories that encompass the range of industries/markets covered, and finally the macro-level analysis in which all two dozen communication, internet and media industries are brought together into a composite view of development and concentration trends across the "network media economy".
Bio
Dwayne Winseck is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, with a cross appointment at the Institute of Political Economy. His research interests include the political economy of telecommunications, the Internet and media as well as communications and media history, theory, policy and regulation. He is also the Director of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, a project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant.
Dwayne’s research, data and views on media concentration and communication, media and Internet industry and policy issues are well known and have been solicited or cited widely in the scholarly literature and by the Parliament of Canada, Canadian Senate, Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Committee, World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunications Union, amongst others. Dwayne also writes regular op-eds on these topics for the press and other outlets, including as a regular columnist for the Globe and Mail.
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