Jeanette Steemers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette Steemers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette |
| FAMILY NAME | Steemers |
| SIGNATURE | STEEMERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3436-741X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Screen entertainment and the ‘youth challenge’: Home advantage, audience preferences and industry responses
Speaking with One Voice – The Future of UK Children's PSB Provision and Policy Making, Updated
There is now widespread agreement among all concerned parties that children's public service content is at risk. There is a real danger, many suggest, that its underlying value in terms of distinctiveness, diversity and engagement with UK children might be further undermined, if not abandoned. A central aim of this article is to explore the value of the public service broadcaster, to encourage the engagement of key stakeholders and facilitate the…
Global platforms, new media generations and Anglo-American hegemony: An exploration of young audience viewing and language preferences in four European countries
This article examines British screen content consumption among young audiences aged 16–34 in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy. It suggests a reconsideration of content flow theories that maintain ‘home advantage’ for domestic content, followed by shows from culturally or linguistically proximate countries. The research reveals a shift among younger viewers towards a re-asserted Anglo-American hegemony, driven b…
Comparative VOD catalogue research: Circulation, presence and prominence of British content in Europe
Video-on-demand (VoD) platforms have become primary spaces for encounters with transnational film and television, particularly among younger audiences. The expansion of global US-owned VoD services like Netflix has generated questions about the availability, discoverability, and prominence of domestic and European content, making the issue of how to analyse VoD catalogues pressing. Two perspectives are prevalent in VoD catalogue research: ‘back-e…
Young Danish audiences and British screen content: A critical reflection on transnational consumption, geo-linguistic regions, and cultural proximity
Drawing on survey and interview data from a pilot study undertaken online in Denmark (March–July 2020), this article provides exploratory insights about how young audiences in Denmark (aged 16–34, with a background in higher education) engage with British television and film as viewing shifts from broadcast television to online on-demand services. First, drawing on survey data, we concentrate on consumption habits and genre preferences regarding …
Children’s documentaries: Distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world
The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “the problem of proper distance”. By that he signified a “moral category” requiring filmmakers to provide “context as well as imagination” and be willing to “…
Children and the media industries
New platforms and services for children’s television and video have seen children in many countries abandon linear television for online viewing. These services challenge existing definitions of children’s television along with ways of understanding the production and distribution of children’s screen content. Children are a valuable audience for global streaming services, including YouTube, Netflix, and Disney+. All operate however outside local…
Curation as methodological enhancement in researching production cultures behind screen content about displaced children in Europe
This paper starts from the premise that research into how producers negotiate issues of diversity and multicultural content in Europe is rare and mostly relies on interviews and documents, and furthermore work on understanding those negotiation processes in relation to children’s screen content is even rarer. The article seeks to reflect critically on an alternative hybrid research method, which aims to open up a space for dialogue about producti…
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK
Netflix and other transnational online video streaming services are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world. In this paper we analyse how public service media (PSM) organisations (key purveyors of societal goals in broadcasting) are responding to the fast-growing popularity of these new services. Drawing on Philip Napoli’s framework for analysing strategic responses by established media to threats …
Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education
Who analyses children's screen content and media use in Arab countries, and with what results? Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at children. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in k…
Children's television in transition: Policies, Platforms and Production
While the internet has facilitated a proliferation in children's media offerings and platforms, television remains the dominant medium in children's lives. Broadcasters and subscription services both compete for their attention, as viewers and as potential consumers of merchandise. Within this transforming landscape, children's television is now produced and distributed through complex processes for global and local markets. The arrival of SVOD s…
Production studies, transformations in children’s television and the global turn
Moving away from the dominant discourse of US experience, this article looks at how the production of local content for children remains a central issue in many parts of the world, in spite of the growth of transnational media and the apparent abundance of content for children worldwide. Drawing on a pre-summit workshop on Children’s Content at the Core of Public Service Media, held at the 2014 World Summit on Media for Children, it considers the…
Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
There has been a conventional wisdom in contemporary media studies that views the phenomenon of globalisation (economic, political, technological and cultural) as a process that diminishes the role of the nation-state. Extrapolating from the observation that each generation of media technologies has enabled more rapid transmission of messages from one place to another, and that the scale of technologies such as those associated with communication…
Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption, that defy state control or regulation. This book questions these assumptions and shows that the nation-state never left and is still a force to be reckoned with
International Sales of U.K. Television Content: Change and Continuity in “the space in between” Production and Consumption
Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article addresses key issues facing the international distribution industry arising from over-the-top (OTT) digital distribution and the fragmentation of audiences and revenues. Building on the identification of these issues, it investigates the extent to which U.K. distribution has altered over a ten-year period, pinpointing continuities in the destination and type of sales alongside changes in the role and s…
From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas
When the ruling families of two oil-rich Arab emirates decided in the 2000s to put money into producing satellite television content for Arabic-speaking children, one of their first steps in the process was to hire foreign executives. Preparing in 2002 for the 2005 launch of Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC), based in Qatar, Shaikha Moza bint Nasser al-Missned, head of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and wi…
Selling Television: Addressing Transformations in the International Distribution of Television Content
The market for overseas trade in television programming is changing, and this demands new ways of examining complex and evolving trends in the international distribution of content. Traditionally there have been countries that made television programs and sold and marketed primarily drama worldwide. Traditionally as well, US transnationals have dominated this market, selling to other broadcasters and marketing their own content on video and later…
Localisation Strategies of US-owned Children's Television Networks in Five European Markets
This study examines the children's channel output of the US transnationals in Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and seeks to identify the specific factors that determine and shape their programming strategies linked to localisation. The analysis is based on a 2-week analysis of the schedules of some of the most popular transnational children's channels (Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon, Nick Junior…
Evaluating and regulating the role of public broadcasters in the children’s media ecology: The case of home-grown television content
This article examines the evaluation and regulation of public service broadcasting’s (PSB’s) contribution to home-grown children’s content, a key marker of difference with commercial rivals. UK experience forms the core of the analysis, but throughout we connect findings to experiences in other European countries. We concentrate on PSB’s interventions in TV, but consider this within the wider scope of multiplatform and online activities that occu…
Little Kids’ TV: Downloading, Sampling, and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experiences of the Digital Era
Public Service Media and Children: Serving the Digital Citizens of the Future
This chapter examines the policy framework shaping the provision of children's content by three Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) organisations — the BBC in Britain, PBS in the US and RAI in Italy. It shows how political decisions regarding the remit and funding of PSBs have traceable consequences for the ability of these organisations to make a real public service contribution in this area, by providing a service that is at the same time distinc…
The “Canary in the Coalmine”: The Recession and the Crisis in the Production of British Children's Television Programming
The BBC’s Role in the Changing Production Ecology of Preschool Television in Britain
CBeebies, the BBC’s brand for young children, has become a successful public service undertaking, lauded by parents and policy makers alike. Nevertheless, it operates in a complex and highly competitive “ecology,” where recent funding crises in commercial television have left CBeebies as the main commissioner of U.K.—originated content. Having outlined the broader industry context of CBeebies, this article examines changes in its organization, ta…
Television Fiction Exchange: Methodological Issues
BBC to the Rescue!: Digital Switchover and the Reinvention of Public Service Broadcasting in Britain
Britain is almost unique in giving its incumbent public service broadcaster, the BBC, a leading role in driving digital, thereby hoping to hasten digital take-up, and thus allowing analogue switch-of by 2012. This paper is divided into two parts. The first part investigates the recent historical past with respect to the making of policy, drawing on the analytical framework of policy cycles. Why has the British government given the BBC a lead role…
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK
Netflix and other transnational online video streaming services are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world. In this paper we analyse how public service media (PSM) organisations (key purveyors of societal goals in broadcasting) are responding to the fast-growing popularity of these new services. Drawing on Philip Napoli’s framework for analysing strategic responses by established media to threats …
Selling Television: Addressing Transformations in the International Distribution of Television Content
The market for overseas trade in television programming is changing, and this demands new ways of examining complex and evolving trends in the international distribution of content. Traditionally there have been countries that made television programs and sold and marketed primarily drama worldwide. Traditionally as well, US transnationals have dominated this market, selling to other broadcasters and marketing their own content on video and later…
Evaluating and regulating the role of public broadcasters in the children’s media ecology: The case of home-grown television content
This article examines the evaluation and regulation of public service broadcasting’s (PSB’s) contribution to home-grown children’s content, a key marker of difference with commercial rivals. UK experience forms the core of the analysis, but throughout we connect findings to experiences in other European countries. We concentrate on PSB’s interventions in TV, but consider this within the wider scope of multiplatform and online activities that occu…
The BBC’s Role in the Changing Production Ecology of Preschool Television in Britain
CBeebies, the BBC’s brand for young children, has become a successful public service undertaking, lauded by parents and policy makers alike. Nevertheless, it operates in a complex and highly competitive “ecology,” where recent funding crises in commercial television have left CBeebies as the main commissioner of U.K.—originated content. Having outlined the broader industry context of CBeebies, this article examines changes in its organization, ta…
International Sales of U.K. Television Content: Change and Continuity in “the space in between” Production and Consumption
Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article addresses key issues facing the international distribution industry arising from over-the-top (OTT) digital distribution and the fragmentation of audiences and revenues. Building on the identification of these issues, it investigates the extent to which U.K. distribution has altered over a ten-year period, pinpointing continuities in the destination and type of sales alongside changes in the role and s…
Comparative VOD catalogue research: Circulation, presence and prominence of British content in Europe
Video-on-demand (VoD) platforms have become primary spaces for encounters with transnational film and television, particularly among younger audiences. The expansion of global US-owned VoD services like Netflix has generated questions about the availability, discoverability, and prominence of domestic and European content, making the issue of how to analyse VoD catalogues pressing. Two perspectives are prevalent in VoD catalogue research: ‘back-e…
Children's television in transition: Policies, Platforms and Production
While the internet has facilitated a proliferation in children's media offerings and platforms, television remains the dominant medium in children's lives. Broadcasters and subscription services both compete for their attention, as viewers and as potential consumers of merchandise. Within this transforming landscape, children's television is now produced and distributed through complex processes for global and local markets. The arrival of SVOD s…
The “Canary in the Coalmine”: The Recession and the Crisis in the Production of British Children's Television Programming
Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Digital Choice: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany
Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom and Germany, this paper sets out to explore the potential impact of digital television on broadcasting, and to identify what implications its introduction might have for audio-visual plurality and diversity. Through an analysis of current trends in television, it examines the difficulty of applying traditional broadcasting policy norms, and how digital technology itself is far less important than the de…
In Search of a Third Way: Balancing Public Purpose and Commerce in German and British Public Service Broadcasting
This paper considers the debate in the U.K. and Germany about the continued justification for publicly funded public service broadcasting in an apparently converging media and communications environment. It examines the public broadcasters' responses, which increasingly encompass a broad range of expansionary and commercial strategies. These strategies bring them into conflict with commercial players and policymakers who would like to see a more …
No Longer 'The Best in the World: The Challenge of Exporting British Television Drama
Within the broader context of globalisation and the transformation of world television markets, this article sets out to address the extent of British drama's international presence, and the factors which either promote or inhibit that presence in Britain's major television export markets in the United States, Western Europe and Australasia. Alongside an examination of recent policy debates, which raised concerns about the exportability of Britis…
BBC to the Rescue!: Digital Switchover and the Reinvention of Public Service Broadcasting in Britain
Britain is almost unique in giving its incumbent public service broadcaster, the BBC, a leading role in driving digital, thereby hoping to hasten digital take-up, and thus allowing analogue switch-of by 2012. This paper is divided into two parts. The first part investigates the recent historical past with respect to the making of policy, drawing on the analytical framework of policy cycles. Why has the British government given the BBC a lead role…
Television Fiction Exchange: Methodological Issues
The BBC’s Role in the Changing Production Ecology of Preschool Television in Britain
CBeebies, the BBC’s brand for young children, has become a successful public service undertaking, lauded by parents and policy makers alike. Nevertheless, it operates in a complex and highly competitive “ecology,” where recent funding crises in commercial television have left CBeebies as the main commissioner of U.K.—originated content. Having outlined the broader industry context of CBeebies, this article examines changes in its organization, ta…
Public Service Media and Children: Serving the Digital Citizens of the Future
This chapter examines the policy framework shaping the provision of children's content by three Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) organisations — the BBC in Britain, PBS in the US and RAI in Italy. It shows how political decisions regarding the remit and funding of PSBs have traceable consequences for the ability of these organisations to make a real public service contribution in this area, by providing a service that is at the same time distinc…
The “Canary in the Coalmine”: The Recession and the Crisis in the Production of British Children's Television Programming
Little Kids’ TV: Downloading, Sampling, and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experiences of the Digital Era
Localisation Strategies of US-owned Children's Television Networks in Five European Markets
This study examines the children's channel output of the US transnationals in Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and seeks to identify the specific factors that determine and shape their programming strategies linked to localisation. The analysis is based on a 2-week analysis of the schedules of some of the most popular transnational children's channels (Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon, Nick Junior…
Evaluating and regulating the role of public broadcasters in the children’s media ecology: The case of home-grown television content
This article examines the evaluation and regulation of public service broadcasting’s (PSB’s) contribution to home-grown children’s content, a key marker of difference with commercial rivals. UK experience forms the core of the analysis, but throughout we connect findings to experiences in other European countries. We concentrate on PSB’s interventions in TV, but consider this within the wider scope of multiplatform and online activities that occu…
Selling Television: Addressing Transformations in the International Distribution of Television Content
The market for overseas trade in television programming is changing, and this demands new ways of examining complex and evolving trends in the international distribution of content. Traditionally there have been countries that made television programs and sold and marketed primarily drama worldwide. Traditionally as well, US transnationals have dominated this market, selling to other broadcasters and marketing their own content on video and later…
From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas
When the ruling families of two oil-rich Arab emirates decided in the 2000s to put money into producing satellite television content for Arabic-speaking children, one of their first steps in the process was to hire foreign executives. Preparing in 2002 for the 2005 launch of Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC), based in Qatar, Shaikha Moza bint Nasser al-Missned, head of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and wi…
Production studies, transformations in children’s television and the global turn
Moving away from the dominant discourse of US experience, this article looks at how the production of local content for children remains a central issue in many parts of the world, in spite of the growth of transnational media and the apparent abundance of content for children worldwide. Drawing on a pre-summit workshop on Children’s Content at the Core of Public Service Media, held at the 2014 World Summit on Media for Children, it considers the…
Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
There has been a conventional wisdom in contemporary media studies that views the phenomenon of globalisation (economic, political, technological and cultural) as a process that diminishes the role of the nation-state. Extrapolating from the observation that each generation of media technologies has enabled more rapid transmission of messages from one place to another, and that the scale of technologies such as those associated with communication…
Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State
Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption, that defy state control or regulation. This book questions these assumptions and shows that the nation-state never left and is still a force to be reckoned with
International Sales of U.K. Television Content: Change and Continuity in “the space in between” Production and Consumption
Focusing on the United Kingdom, this article addresses key issues facing the international distribution industry arising from over-the-top (OTT) digital distribution and the fragmentation of audiences and revenues. Building on the identification of these issues, it investigates the extent to which U.K. distribution has altered over a ten-year period, pinpointing continuities in the destination and type of sales alongside changes in the role and s…
Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education
Who analyses children's screen content and media use in Arab countries, and with what results? Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at children. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in k…
Children's television in transition: Policies, Platforms and Production
While the internet has facilitated a proliferation in children's media offerings and platforms, television remains the dominant medium in children's lives. Broadcasters and subscription services both compete for their attention, as viewers and as potential consumers of merchandise. Within this transforming landscape, children's television is now produced and distributed through complex processes for global and local markets. The arrival of SVOD s…
Children and the media industries
New platforms and services for children’s television and video have seen children in many countries abandon linear television for online viewing. These services challenge existing definitions of children’s television along with ways of understanding the production and distribution of children’s screen content. Children are a valuable audience for global streaming services, including YouTube, Netflix, and Disney+. All operate however outside local…
Curation as methodological enhancement in researching production cultures behind screen content about displaced children in Europe
This paper starts from the premise that research into how producers negotiate issues of diversity and multicultural content in Europe is rare and mostly relies on interviews and documents, and furthermore work on understanding those negotiation processes in relation to children’s screen content is even rarer. The article seeks to reflect critically on an alternative hybrid research method, which aims to open up a space for dialogue about producti…
Public service media in the age of SVoDs: A comparative study of PSM strategic responses in Flanders, Italy and the UK
Netflix and other transnational online video streaming services are disrupting long-established arrangements in national television systems around the world. In this paper we analyse how public service media (PSM) organisations (key purveyors of societal goals in broadcasting) are responding to the fast-growing popularity of these new services. Drawing on Philip Napoli’s framework for analysing strategic responses by established media to threats …
Children’s documentaries: Distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world
The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “the problem of proper distance”. By that he signified a “moral category” requiring filmmakers to provide “context as well as imagination” and be willing to “…
Young Danish audiences and British screen content: A critical reflection on transnational consumption, geo-linguistic regions, and cultural proximity
Drawing on survey and interview data from a pilot study undertaken online in Denmark (March–July 2020), this article provides exploratory insights about how young audiences in Denmark (aged 16–34, with a background in higher education) engage with British television and film as viewing shifts from broadcast television to online on-demand services. First, drawing on survey data, we concentrate on consumption habits and genre preferences regarding …
Speaking with One Voice – The Future of UK Children's PSB Provision and Policy Making, Updated
There is now widespread agreement among all concerned parties that children's public service content is at risk. There is a real danger, many suggest, that its underlying value in terms of distinctiveness, diversity and engagement with UK children might be further undermined, if not abandoned. A central aim of this article is to explore the value of the public service broadcaster, to encourage the engagement of key stakeholders and facilitate the…
Political science (19 works) · Business (18 works) · Media Studies and Communication (17 works) · Advertising (14 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works)