Track 39: E-Media / Application systems in the media industry
Communities, file-sharing platforms, mobile applications and new standards such as DVB-H and DMB are examples for innovative services that are currently changing the media industry. New options for content production and distribution make us revisit classic value chains and allow for novel business models. On the other hand, satisfactory answers have been found to topics like digital rights management, media-independent content production or long-term archiving of digital content. The goal of this track is to trace and explain these developments and to find groundbreaking solutions. We welcome contributions covering practical issues of the media industry (such as open content) as well as fundamental research relevant to the media industry (such as technology acceptance theory, speech act theory or collective action theory in standardization issues).
Possible topics:
- user generated content and content communities
- multi-channel distribution and media-independent content production
- intermediaries in the media industry
- content storage and distribution via peer-to-peer or grid technologies
- digital rights management and effects on content distribution
- standardization and network effects in the media industry
- production and distribution of digital content
Leading Committee: |
| Prof. Dr. Thomas Hess, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Federführender) |
| Prof. Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, Universität zu Köln |
| Prof. Dr. Matthias Schumann, Universität Göttingen |
Programm Committee: |
| Peter Buxmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| Michel Clement, Universität Hamburg |
| Judith Gebauer, University of Illinois/USA |
| Rüdiger Grimm, Universität Koblenz |
| Volker Wulf, Universität Siegen |
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