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Purpose This study aims to identify and explain a possible gender pay gap in the creative industry. By using salary information of Hollywood actors, this paper restricts analysis relatively homogenous group workers. In addition, actors' human capital endowments past performance can be measured precisely. The factors that impact salaries movie stars are likely influence other high-wage employees...

Film trailers have specific features defining a distinct visual media genre. Trailer structural features and viewers’ parsing strategies were analyzed in 21 trailers – a set of comedy, drama, and action film per decade from 1940 2010. Trailers’ structural features show a shot duration pattern that replicates the gradual decrease in Hollywood film over the same period (Cutting et al., 2011; Salt...

This study traces the evolution of commons-based peer production by a measurementbased analysis of case studies and discusses the impact of peer production on net neutrality and copyright law. The measurements include websites such as suprnova.org, youtube.com, and facebook.com, and the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems Kazaa, Bittorrent, and Tribler. The measurements show the two sides of peer produc...

Studies have consistently found that social structure influences who transacts with whom, and that actors appear to benefit when exchange occurs embedded within these relations rather than in an unstructured market. Explanations for these results frequently point to their effectiveness in solving problems inherent in the trade of certain products and services, focusing on the ability of these s...

As military forces around the world embrace modelling and simulation as a fundamental enabling technology necessary to help them meet strategic objectives, the limitations and potential misuses of these tools and the processes that use them are worth closer examination. Of particular concern is the potential for decision-makers to be unduly influenced by state-of-the-art animation and 3D graphi...

Sleepydog is a TV and games company. We also have a strong track record in mobile and social TV. The merging of media silos requires new TV shows to have a strong back story to capitalise on the 360 nature of today's output. Our submission is part of the back story for a detective show. As they say in Hollywood, think Bones in a Bladerunner future. It is set in a future San Francisco 10 15 year...

This paper focuses on the symbiotic relationship between the media in one respect andthe motion picture industry, educational institutions and policy-makers in perpetuating misrepresentations about Islam. The scope of this paper will be on the representations associated with Islam and Muslims primarily in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.Much news coverage about Islam and Mus...