[ecrea] Media Practice and Education - Special Issue on 'Practice and/as Media Industry Research'

I am pleased to announce that the new special guest issue of /*Media 
Practice and Education*/ has now been published.

Vol 19, No 2 (2018) examines '*/Practice and/as Media Industry 
Research/*', and can be accessed here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjmp21/19/2?nav=tocList

Guest Editor: *Matthew Freeman, Bath Spa University*

Media industry studies – an umbrella label that is given to ‘the whole 
body of research and of teaching that is principally concerned with 
wanting to critically examine the histories, processes, procedures, 
structures, policies, mechanisms, and professional ideologies that 
relate to the workings of the media industries’ (McDonald, 2014) – is 
now a focal point at many universities. But while the study of media 
industries indicates a bridging between theory and practice – between 
the study of media forms and the pragmatics of media making – far less 
attention has been paid to what the study of media industries looks like 
as practice-based or practice-led research, or even how collaboration 
between academia and the media industries actively shapes practice.

This themed Special Issue of /Media Practice and Education/, developed 
from papers presented at the 2017 /Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA 
Practice Network/ symposium at Bath Spa University, aims to redress this 
gap, pushing forward the subfield of media industry research via a more 
emphatic emphasis on practice itself. Altogether, the six articles in 
this Special Issue indicate that the value of extending the body of 
media industry research into practice-based territories and approaches 
lies in its potential to forge collaborative and multi-perspectival 
research mechanisms. Individually, the articles explore what 
practice-based research reveals about different aspects of media 
industry practice, how the collaborative act of doing academic research 
with media industries provides new methodological insights into the 
practice of research itself, and examine wider implications for 
pedagogic practice on account of shifting working practices between 
academia and the media industries.

*TABLE OF CONTENTS:*

*ARTICLES:*

/Introduction: Practice and/as Media Industry Research/
Matthew Freeman

/Cinematographic Affordances: Creative Approaches to Lighting in Moving 
Image Practice/
Alex Nevill

/A Fistful of Dollars or The Sting? Considering Academic-Industry 
Collaborations in the Production of Feature Films/
John Mateer

/Managing Productive Academia/Industry Relations: The Interview as 
Research Method/
Anna Potter

/Screen Industry Collaboration: The Knock - Producing Fiction with 
Creative England/BFI/
Dominique Webb

/Learning by Watching, Doing and “Having a Chat”: Developing Conceptual 
Knowledge in the UK Film and TV Industry/
Carl Schoenfeld

/"Filmmaking is a hard thing to do": Reflections on Student and Lecturer 
Experience of Falmouth University’s Filmmaker in Residence Initiative/
Neil Fox

*BOOK REVIEWS:*

/Industrial Approaches to Media: A Methodological Gateway to Industry 
Studies (By Matthew Freeman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)/
L. Archer Porter

/Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Enquiry 
(Edited by Craig Batty and Susan Kerrigan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)/
Mark Readman

/Media Practice and Education/ adopts an inter-disciplinary approach and 
seeks to foster collaboration and exchanges between academic, 
professional, educational and creative practitioners, including the 
dissemination of work funded by such partnerships. In addition, the 
journal aims to contribute to the development of both integrated and 
diverse forms of research mediation, facilitate equitable relationships 
between media practice, theory and education and provide a critical 
bridge between the written article and the publishing of media practice 
and education research in other online media formats:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjmp21/19/2?nav=tocList



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