Tag: Royal Holloway
OBJECT TROUVE: PLAY AWAY, ORDINARY CHILDREN’S TELE...
Posted by CSTonline | Feb 24, 2017 | Archives, Audience, BBC, Blogs, Children's TV, Funded Projects | 0
SKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING A...
Posted by CSTonline | Feb 17, 2017 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Game Shows, HBO, Netflix, Quality TV, Streaming | 0
ADAPTing TO SOCIAL MEDIA TELEVISION by Dr Niki Str...
Posted by CSTonline | Feb 17, 2017 | Audience, Blogs, Commercial TV, Social media, Technology | 0
WRITING WITH PICTURES: THE AUDIOVISUAL, THE ESSAY ...
Posted by CSTonline | Feb 3, 2017 | Blogs, Conferences/events, Documentary, Funded Projects, Teaching, UK TV | 1
SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
Mar 9, 2018 | Amazon, Blogs, Cable, Commercial TV, Netflix, News, Sky TV, Streaming, Transnational TV | 0
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
Read MoreOBJECT TROUVE: PLAY AWAY, ORDINARY CHILDREN’S TELEVISION AND PERSONAL MEMORIES by Billy Smart
Feb 24, 2017 | Archives, Audience, BBC, Blogs, Children's TV, Funded Projects | 0
There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that...
Read MoreSKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING AT OSTERLEY by John Ellis
Feb 17, 2017 | Blogs, Box sets / DVD, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Game Shows, HBO, Netflix, Quality TV, Streaming | 0
Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch...
Read MoreADAPTing TO SOCIAL MEDIA TELEVISION by Dr Niki Strange
Feb 17, 2017 | Audience, Blogs, Commercial TV, Social media, Technology | 0
Previous blog posts by my Adapt colleague, Professor James Bennett, on our social media research...
Read MoreWRITING WITH PICTURES: THE AUDIOVISUAL, THE ESSAY AND TELEVISION by John Ellis
Feb 3, 2017 | Blogs, Conferences/events, Documentary, Funded Projects, Teaching, UK TV | 1
How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the...
Read MoreBROADCASTING APPOINTMENT CHAOS by John Ellis
Dec 8, 2016 | BBC, Blogs, Commercial TV, Public Service Broadcasting, UK TV | 0
Who wants to be Chair of the BBC? As it happens, nobody really. Who wants to be a director of...
Read MoreWHY 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 MoreNEW SPACES OF TELEVISION PRODUCTION: FROM THE LIVING ROOM TO THE PLAYGROUND by James Bennett
Mar 4, 2016 | Blogs, Funded Projects, News, Teaching, Technology | 0
@james_a_bennett Television production is often thought of as taking place either in the studio, on location or in the edit suite. Todd Gitlen’s book Inside Primetime and Nick Couldry’s work has encouraged us to think about this...
Read MoreTHEORY, PRACTICE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING YOUR HANDS ON by John Ellis
Feb 25, 2016 | Blogs, Funded Projects, Teaching, Technology | 0
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...
Read MoreBBC CHARTER REVIEW: HOW BAD WILL IT GET? by John Ellis
Feb 11, 2016 | BBC, Blogs, Legislation, News, Public Service Broadcasting | 0
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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