The creation and distribution of user-generated content via video-sharing sites such as YouTube and GoogleVideo both expands and alters our rapport with the medium of television. This article proposes to introduce the concept of “homecasting” (as distinct from broadcasting and narrowcasting) as a step towards designing a meaningful framework for understanding the current mediascape and the tech...

In Austria like in many other countries nearly all school have an internet connection. This offers a lot of new possibilities in communication and information retrieval. The authors believe that streaming and broadcasting technology which require broadband access will lead to a major step forward in the use of IT in classroom. The prime aim of the AVD project is to investigate the potentialitie...

Video on Demand (VOD) system is an electronic video rental system where the clients have the ability to request and view the video at any time, which makes the VOD to become an important technology with many applications. Numerous periodic VOD broadcasting protocols have been proposed to support a large number of receivers. Broadcasting is an efficient transmission scheme which provides on-dema...

The media industry is rapidly migrating from tape-based media acquisition and broadcast to filebased workflows. This migration has resulted in many different dimensions of impact on the media content. The transformation of media content occurs at several stages in the flow. The transformation could start from conversion of analog to digital media and be affected by various systems involved in p...

In Indonesia, national broadcasting in the 21st century has been characterized by increasing Muslim normativity across the spectrum of commercial programming, along with sectarian clashes that have further marginalized religious minorities. This article investigates the case of a small, regional television station in one of the country’s Christian-majority provinces to explore the ways that suc...

This article focuses on the recent wave of M&A activity, both vertical and horizontal in TV broadcasting and distribution industries, and discusses the implications of M&A activity for competition, industrial and media policymaking. Moreover, it aspires to set a forward-looking perspective on the regulation of M&A in the TV industry. It is argued that while EU competition policy has difficultie...

This paper investigates how informative media affect political accountability and policy. I first present a baseline model of how informative media affects political accountability. The model is used to discuss the welfare consequences of private provision of news. It shows how media regulation and public broadcasting may correct market failures, notably, the under-provision of news. The model ...

As social media has become more integrated into peoples’ daily lives, its users have begun turning to it in times of distress. People use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media platforms to broadcast their needs, propagate rumors and news, and stay abreast of evolving crisis situations. Disaster relief organizations have begun to craft their efforts around pulling data about where a...