Tag: John Ellis
SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
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SKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING AT OSTERLEY by John Ellis
Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch...
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ADAPTing TO SOCIAL MEDIA TELEVISION by Dr Niki Strange
Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research...
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WRITING WITH PICTURES: THE AUDIOVISUAL, THE ESSAY AND TELEVISION by John Ellis
How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the...
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BROADCASTING APPOINTMENT CHAOS by John Ellis
Who wants to be Chair of the BBC? As it happens, nobody really. Who wants to be a director of...
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WHY CAN’T I FIND ANYTHING TO WATCH ON TV? by John Ellis
Why has the television business made it so hard for its users to find something they want to...
Read MoreBBC TO STRUGGLE ON by John Ellis
The White Paper on the future of the BBC is broadly good news for the organisation, but that’s only because the real damage has already been done. George Osborne’s budget raid cost the organisation £630 million, and led...
Read MoreTWEET PRODUCTION: SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIVE TELEVISION by James Bennett
Much has been written about the way in which social media has reinvigorated live television, particularly from the perspective of the audience (for example, Liz Evans, Sheryl Wilson, or Inge Sø renson). But much less is known,...
Read MoreARE WE DISAFFECTED WITH POLITICS OR OBSESSED WITH POLITICS? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK ON TV by John Ellis
Two things have made me think about the role of television in the current wave of disaffection from politics. One was a satirical song from Mitch Benn on a recent Radio 4 Now Show with the refrain “I don’t want to see the news...
Read MoreTHEORY, PRACTICE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING YOUR HANDS ON by John Ellis
The theory/practice ‘divide’ has long bedeviled media studies. But this divide cannot be sustained in the face of new concerns in the field. Studies of gaming and computing emphasize issues that studies of audiovisual media have...
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BBC CHARTER REVIEW: HOW BAD WILL IT GET? by John Ellis
The BBC is under threat like never before. That seems to be the consensus about the two events of...
Read MoreWHAT IS A PhD AND WHAT IS IT FOR? by John Ellis
The doctoral thesis is the most problematic aspect of academic endeavour, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Unlike the sciences, where a doctoral student is typically part of a team attached to a research...
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