RATES OF CHANGE: ONLINE DISTRIBUTION AS DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN THE FILM INDUSTRY

被引：11

作者：

Cunningham, Stuart ^{[1
]}

Silver, Jon ^{[1
]}

McDonnell, John ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Queensland Univ Technol, Creat Ind Fac, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia

[2] Queensland Univ Technol, Fac Business, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia

来源：

MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA | 2010年 / 136期

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D O I：

10.1177/1329878X1013600114

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Much debate in media and communication studies is based on exaggerated opposition between the digital sublime and the digital abject: overly enthusiastic optimism versus determined pessimism over the potential of new technologies. This inhibits the discipline's claims to provide rigorous insight into industry and social change which is, after all, continuous. Instead of having to decide one way or the other, we need to ask how we study the process of change. This article examines the impact of online distribution in the film industry, particularly addressing the question of rates of change. Are there genuinely new players disrupting the established oligopoly, and if so with what effect? Is there evidence of disruption to, and innovation in, business models? Has cultural change been forced on the incumbents? Outside mainstream Hollywood, where are the new opportunities and the new players? What is the situation in Australia?

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