Journal article
Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.163(1), pp.6-12
2017
Abstract
While the internet has facilitated a proliferation in children's media offerings and platforms, television remains the dominant medium in children's lives. Broadcasters and subscription services both compete for their attention, as viewers and as potential consumers of merchandise. Within this transforming landscape, children's television is now produced and distributed through complex processes for global and local markets. The arrival of SVOD services like Netflix and Amazon and a dedicated YouTube children's app further complicated the global production ecology, increasing the transnational nature of children's screen offerings. Locally produced children's television content nonetheless retains its importance in policy circles, with its perceived contribution to national cultural representation often used to justify regulatory intervention and financial supports for the genre. This theme issue on children's television in transition considers policy and production issues related to children's television in a range of Australasian and international contexts. In doing so it confirms the importance of local content within an increasingly globalized children's media sector.
Details
- Title
- Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production
- Authors
- Anna Potter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and LawJeanette Steemers (Author) - Kings College London, United Kingdom
- Publication details
- Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.163(1), pp.6-12
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Date published
- 2017
- DOI
- 10.1177/1329878X17693936
- ISSN
- 1329-878X; 1329-878X
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Reproduced with permission of SAGE Publications.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451175002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
- Research Statement
- false
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