PUBLIC LECTURE: Professor Robert Picard, on Friday 16 May
Goldsmiths, University of london
"Drivers of Change in Media Industries"
Professor Robert Picard (Hamrin Professor of Media Economics and director
of the Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jönköping International
Business School, Jönköping University, Sweden; also on the faculty of the
Institute of Media and Entertainment in New York).
Picard is the author and editor of 22 books including Media Product
Portfolios: Issues in Managing Multiple Products and Services (Lawrence
Erlbaum Publishers), The Economics and Financing of Media Companies
(Fordham University Press), Media Firms: Structures, Operations and
Performance (Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers), The Internet and the Mass Media
(Sage), The Newspaper Publishing Industry (Allyn & Bacon), Media
Economics: Concepts and Issues (Sage), Press Concentration and Monopoly:
New Perspectives on Newspaper Ownership and Operation (Ablex), and Joint
Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and Its Application
(Ablex).
In this public lecture he will explore the critical factors altering the
relationships between media and their audiences, established business
models, and organizational structures and behaviors of media companies. He
will address the implications of those changes and why it is changing the
work and position of content creators and other media personnel.
The event will take place at 12pm in Screen 1 in Goldsmiths' Media Research
Building (MRB).
This event is free and all are welcome.
Please contact Elisabeth Baumann-Meurer ([log in to unmask])if
you would like to attend.
Regards
Elisabeth
Research/Associate Administrator
Goldsmiths Media Research Programme: Spaces, Connections, Control
(Funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths College
University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW
tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7893
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