Jeanette Steemers

Professor of Media and Communications
Email: j.steemers@wmin.ac.uk

Jeanette Steemers (PhD 1990 University of Bath) is a graduate in German and Russian (European Studies) and her PhD looked at the challenges facing public service broadcasting in West Germany.

Her research interests include media policy (particularly relating to digital television, public service media and new media), the international circulation of British television exports, and the media industries.

Her work on British television programme exports was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the AHRC and the British Academy. She is author of Selling Television: British Television in the Global Marketplace (2004) and co-author of European Television Industries (2005).

She is currently running a two-year research project on the changing production ecology of pre-school television in Britain. This is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and a book, published by Palgrave Macmillan will be published in 2009. She is Associate Editor (Europe) for Convergence and also a member of the Euromedia Research Group. Before entering academia she worked as a media industry analyst at CIT Research in London, and as Research Manager at HIT Entertainment PLC, a London-based producer, distributor and funder of pre-school television.

Jeanette teaches on modules which include Media Institutions and Society and Media Management Methods, as well as dissertation supervision for undergraduates and on the MA in Media Management. She is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas: European media, media industries, children’s television, media exports, global media, media institutions, television formats. She has examined several doctoral theses.

Selected Publications

Books

European Television Industries (London: BFI, 2005). (with P. Iosifides & M. Wheeler)

· Selling Television: British Television in the Global Marketplace (London: BFI, 2004)

· Changing Channels: The Prospects for Television in a Digital World (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1998). Editor

·Refereed Articles

With P. Smith, ‘BBC to the Rescue! Digital Switchover and the Reinvention of Public Service Broadcasting in Britain’, Javnost-The Public, 14, no. 1 (2007), 39-56.
‘No Longer The ‘Best in the World’: The Challenge of Exporting British Drama’ , Media International Australia, 115, May (2005). 33-47.
‘In Search of a Third Way – Managing Public Purpose and Commerce in German and British Public Service Broadcasting’, Canadian Journal of Communications, 26, 1, (2001). 69-87.
‘Between Culture and Commerce. The Problems of Redefining Public Service Broadcasting for the Digital Era’, Convergence, 5, no. 3, (1999). 44-67.
'Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Digital Choice: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany', Convergence, 3, no. 1 (1997). 51-71.

Book Chapters and Commissioned Articles

‘Europe: Television in Transition’, in L. Artz and Y.R. Kamalipour (eds) The Media Globe (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), 57-78.
‘European Television in the Global Marketplace’ in F. Marcinkowski, W.A. Meier, J. Trappel (eds) Media and Democracy (Bern/Stuttgart/Wien: Haupt Verlag, 2006), 91-109.
‘Balancing Culture and Commerce on the Global Stage: BBC Worldwide’ in Jauert & Lowe Cultural Dilemmas in Public Service Broadcasting (Göteborg: Nordicom, 2005). 231-50.
‘Public service broadcasting is not dead yet: Survival strategies in the 21st Century’ in G. Lowe, and T. Hujanen (eds.) Broadcasting and Convergence (Göteborg: Nordicom, 2003). 123-36.
‘BBC Online' in Diversity or Anarchy? eds. S. Ralph, H. Manchester, T. Lees (Luton: University of Luton Press, 2003). 311-19.
‘Onlineaktivitäten der BBC: Gratwanderung zwischen Public-Service-Verpflichtungen und kommerziellen Zielen’, Media Perspektiven, 3, March (2001). 126-32.
'Old Media, New Media and the State' in R. Wise with Jeanette Steemers, Multimedia: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2000). 85-114.
Steemers, J., 'Selling Children's Television: Exploiting Ancillary Rights' in J. Langham Brown, S. Ralph, T. Lees (eds) Youth and the Global Media (Luton: ULP, 1999).197-204.
'Der terrestrische Fernsehsektor in Großbritannien', Media Perspektiven, 6, (1998). 287-297.
'Digitale Medienpolitik in Großbritannien'. Media Perspektiven , 7, (1996). 402-408.

Funding Awards

2007-2008 – Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant as Co-Investigator – AHRC & BBC Pilot Knowledge Exchange Programme. ‘Audience and Producer Engagement with Immersive Worlds (Case study: CBBC World)'

2006-2008 - Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant as Principal Investigator on ‘The Production Ecology of Pre-School Television in Britain.’

Oct 2002- Sept 2003 Arts and Humanities Research Board - Research Leave Scheme –‘Selling Television: British Television in the Global Marketplace’

Oct. 2001-Sept 2002 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for ‘Selling British Television’ project.

June 2001-Sept 20002 British Academy Small Grant for ‘Selling British Television: Cultural Industries Policy and International Television Ecologies.