Online piracy is the preferred means of acquiring television for large numbers of people not because it is free, but because it is the best means.
Audience Research for Fun and Profit: Rediscovering the Value of Television Audiences
The television industry should look to other digital business, experiment with models online, and explore emergent sites of audience value.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Sheila Seles: “Audience Research for Fun and Profit: Rediscovering the value of television audiences”
Sheila Seles’ work for CMS and the Convergence Culture Consortium examines the television industry with a special focus on its changing business.
From the CMS archive: “The Real World’s Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley”
Mick Foley, one of the top wrestling performers of the past decade, talked about his experiences as an entertainer and bestselling author.
CMS grad Sam Ford continues to pop up in every news story about the importance of soap operas
Whether it’s pro wrestling or your nana’s “stories,” CMS graduate Sam Ford is reporters’ go-to guy for understanding the nuts and bolts of TV drama.
Dis/Locating Audience: Transnational Media Flows and the Online Circulation of East Asian Television Drama
In examining the flourishing online fandom around the circulation of East Asian television drama, however, the established models of transnational media audiences prove insufficient.
Nostalgia Without Memory: Iranian-Americans, Cultural Programming, and Internet Television
This thesis explores the role of Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in repairing the fractured post-revolution Iranian culture.
