Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production

Anna Potter; Jeanette Steemers

doi:10.1177/1329878X17693936

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Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production

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Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production

Anna Potter and Jeanette Steemers

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.163(1), pp.6-12

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X17693936

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children

globalisation

media policy

public service broadcasting

television

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.

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Title: Children's television in transition: policies, platforms and production
Authors: Anna Potter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Jeanette 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
Grants: International Transformations in Children’s Television 2013-18, DE160100313, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
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

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