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Founded in 2012, the media industries workgroup (Arbeitsgruppe Medienindustrien) within the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) is engaged in organising conferences, publications, and research networks specifically related to media industries research. It is the first dedicated work group of its kind in the German-language countries and currently is led by Lies van Roessel and Florian Krauß.

Members of the Screen Industries Special Interest Group (SISIG) consider that the profound changes in the creative industries and their importance to public policy make industry-focussed research an important loci requiring specific and sustained critical engagement. SISIG will work to reflect, promote and advance industry-focused research within film, television and screen studies, both historical and contemporary, by providing a forum for interdisciplinary communication and exchange, and a platform for the dissemination of cutting edge scholarship.

The purpose of the ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Section is to provide a professional forum for the presentation, dissemination, analysis and discussion of all aspects of research related to media, creative and cultural industries, and to questions of media and cultural production. ECREA is the main European organisation for media and communication research, with nearly 3,000 individual members.

‘emma’ is Europe’s most established academic association in the field of media management. The association supports advancement in research, scholarship, and industry relations with academia throughout Europe and with regards to Europe. EMMA’s flagship publication, the Journal of Media Business Studies, publishes original scholarly articles that apply business theories to the examination of media and media industries respectively.

Global Media and China (GCH) is a peer-reviewed, open access SAGE journal, which provides a dedicated, interdisciplinary forum for international research on communication and media with a focus on China. This journal is the official journal of the Communication University of China.

The Media Production Analysis Working Group of the IAMCR provides a venue for researchers of media production in various genres and across different media with a focus on multiple technologies, organisational contexts and genres to grasp the internal and external dynamics of media production processes. IAMCR is a worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research. Its members promote global inclusiveness and excellence within the best traditions of critical scholarship in the field."

ICA’s Media Industry Studies Interest Group (ICAMIS) exists to promote research and teaching practice on the history, organization, structure, economics, management, production processes and cultural forms, and the societal impact of media industries from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and cultural perspectives. Among other things, members study: the relationship between government and industry; the intersection of audience and industry; audiences as consumers; the business of media; production and creative labour; ownership structure; and content diversity from a range of micro and macro-levels.

Media Industries is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that supports critical studies of media industries, institutions, and policies worldwide. The journal, which launched in 2014, represents an international collaboration among nine universities on four different continents. Administrative and editorial processes are managed by leading faculty members from these institutions.

The Screen Industries Work Group (SIWG) brings together researchers examining the practices, structures, organization, and dynamics shaping the film, television, gaming and digital media industries. Our members have research and teaching interests relating to a full range of screen industries and institutions in all international territories, and with how those industries operate at local, national, regional or global levels of analysis in all historical periods. SIWG welcomes intellectual diversity and so does not advocate any single approach to the study of screen industries but instead encourages research and teaching that is continually open to, and strengthened by, multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives.

It is the aim of the Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group (MISIG) promotes research and teaching directed at cultivating knowledge of the industrial and institutional conditions which shape and define the financing, regulation, production, reproduction, dissemination, promotion, presentation or consumption of media products and services. Analysis of the media industries and institutions invites a range of critical or conceptual frameworks, and research by members of MISIG includes critical engagement with matters of cultural labour, industry structures, media markets, creative and working practices, media law (e.g. competition, intellectual property, or tax), policy formation, and environmental issues (e.g. electronic waste).