A multi-author discussion of the creative industries in the digital age
By: Keegan Douglass In Ruth Bridgstock’s article “Skills for creative industries graduate success,” empirical evidence is used to support the notion of the Protean Careerist. “Hall describe the protean career as a career orientation in which the individual, rather than the organization, is in charge, where the person’s core values drive career decisions, and where […]
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a continuation of the Terminator series. It ignored the third installment of the series – Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) – and picked up where Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). At the time, it was a relatively successful drama. It was rated as the most popular original scripted drama series of the 2007-2008 season. Fox picked […]
In Empires of Entertainment, Jennifer Holt reveals that only “six conglomerates dominate the global media marketplace” (Holt 2). One of those conglomerates – and, I argue, one of the more damaging ones – is Viacom. The major step that brought Viacom to level of media-conglomerate that it is today was the Paramount-Viacom merge that occurred in 1993. […]
It is this sort of intimacy that clearly distinguishes a podcast from a radio show. Maron’s show, in particular, represents the sort of intimacy that podcast listener will look for.
Relatively, Phelous’s Patreon is quite successful. Other creators, such as Kinda Funny, have a larger fan base. Kinda Funny has – at this time – 6,772 patrons, and their rewards are much higher. Phelous, by contrast, has 336 patrons, with much smaller rewards; however, Phelous has the advantage of making low-budget content with the aid of a small, yet loyal community of fans.
Film and Digital Media 