M Keane
Biographic Data
| ID | 30884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Keane |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Keane |
| SIGNATURE | KEANE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8155-0140 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sino-futurism and alternative imaginaries of Digital China
This paper investigates the role of digital technologies in transforming China's self-image. It focuses on the use of extended reality (XR) in ceremonial events and art exhibitions. The paper offers two case studies. The first study, Beijing 8-Minute Show (2018), a multimedia performance at the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, set the scene for what was called the Science and Technology Winter Olympics in 2022. The second…
Asia as method: Where does China fit
Struggling to be more visible: Female digital creative entrepreneurs in China
Entrepreneurs have become the driving force of China’s economy over the past few decades. With a rapid surge in the growth of digital platforms, and the success of China’s platforms outside China, the aspiration to be entrepreneurial is recognized and celebrated. Increasingly, women are benefitting from this entrepreneurial fever. However, behind the increasing number of emerging women digital entrepreneurs, is the struggle to gain recognition. D…
Data on demand
© Authors. This special issue of Global Media & China critically examines the current fascination with indexing, mapping, ranking and metrics worldwide as they apply to nations, regions, municipalities, publications and even citizens. We now live in age of information abundance. This abundance has in turn generated enthusiasm for increasing scrutiny of data, big and small. Many questions therefore arise: how valid is the measurement? Who benefits…
When push comes to nudge: A Chinese digital civilisation in-the-making
China's emergence as a technological power is now unquestioned. Since the early 2000s, the Chinese government has invested heavily in information and communication technology. Rather than seeing the internet as a challenge to its hegemony, the government has allowed leading communications companies to offer new digital services, many of which enhance peoples' lifestyles, while others allow people to express their loyalty to the nation. The Party-…
Formats, cultural security and China’s going out policy
This article investigates the relationship between television formats, cultural security and China’s ‘going out’ policy. Cultural security is a term used within Chinese policy circles to advocate the strengthening of media and cultural pursuits with a view to making them effective instruments of national ‘soft power’, a term coined by Joseph Nye (1990). Whereas ‘going out’ refers to Chinese business expansion internationally, in this article it d…
Popular online games in the Taiwanese market: An examination of the relationships of media globalization and local media consumption
In many respects, the first decade of the new millennium was one of the most open periods in the history of modern China. While far from the heady enthusiasm of the pre-Communist era, particularly the New Culture Movement (from around 1915 to 1930), during which foreign ideas were introduced to and integrated with indigenous ideas, the cultural scene in China was once again reinvigorated by international influences. Driven by the realization that…
Investigating the Determinants of Relative Economic Performance for Irish Towns: A Finite Mixture Modelling Approach
Cullinan J., Garvey E. and Keane M. Investigating the determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns: a finite-mixture modelling approach, Regional Studies. This paper uses a finite-mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns. The main argument put forward is that determinants of success can act in different ways for different groups of towns and the modelling a…
Television's New Engines
Internationalization is a key to the success of television formats. To understand format trade it is necessary to draw out distinctions between formats and genre. Engines— innovations in programming engineered by format devisors—allow formats to regenerate and hybridize across genres. The core principle of formats, however, is the practice of franchising. Causal relations can be established between formats, engines, and the tradability of televis…
From made in China to created in China
This article provides a macro-perspective on China's repositioning in the global and regional cultural economy, and in doing so questions the structural impact of past practices on future export aspirations. Whereas most accounts of China's media are predicated on top-down control models, the article proposes a media development framework appropriate to China' s aspirations in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The framework is most re…
The Diggi Awards: An ‘agent model’ for creative community-building
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
Ethics and Pragmatism: China's Television Producers Confront the Cultural Market
Since its beginnings in 1958, television in China has been hailed as the 'mouthpiece of the Party, the government and the people'. The rapid expansion of the television industry since deregulation policies were introduced in 1983 has significantly compticated this relationship. New doctrines of accounlability and supply-demand economics have been prescribed as blueprints for the success of cultural institutions now forced to survive without state…
Path analysis technique
Regional Development and Language Maintenance
The maintenance of cultural areas is inextricably connected to their ability to survive in economic terms. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between culture and economic development. In this paper, this relationship in an Irish-language-speaking region in the west of Ireland is examined. A model is used to relate measures of language health in census areas to socioeconomic variables and location differences. Some policy and planning issue…
A functional distance approach to regionalisation
Keane M. J. (1978) A functional distance approach to regionalisation, Reg. Studies 12, 379–386. The problem of regional delimitation can be viewed as the problem of how to aggregate subareas into regions. Components of this aggregation approach include a set of areas, representing building blocks, a set of criteria, a procedure for aggregating areas, and a method for evaluating alternative aggregations. This paper reports on how this type of meth…
From made in China to created in China
This article provides a macro-perspective on China's repositioning in the global and regional cultural economy, and in doing so questions the structural impact of past practices on future export aspirations. Whereas most accounts of China's media are predicated on top-down control models, the article proposes a media development framework appropriate to China' s aspirations in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The framework is most re…
Television's New Engines
Internationalization is a key to the success of television formats. To understand format trade it is necessary to draw out distinctions between formats and genre. Engines— innovations in programming engineered by format devisors—allow formats to regenerate and hybridize across genres. The core principle of formats, however, is the practice of franchising. Causal relations can be established between formats, engines, and the tradability of televis…
When push comes to nudge: A Chinese digital civilisation in-the-making
China's emergence as a technological power is now unquestioned. Since the early 2000s, the Chinese government has invested heavily in information and communication technology. Rather than seeing the internet as a challenge to its hegemony, the government has allowed leading communications companies to offer new digital services, many of which enhance peoples' lifestyles, while others allow people to express their loyalty to the nation. The Party-…
Path analysis technique
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
Sino-futurism and alternative imaginaries of Digital China
This paper investigates the role of digital technologies in transforming China's self-image. It focuses on the use of extended reality (XR) in ceremonial events and art exhibitions. The paper offers two case studies. The first study, Beijing 8-Minute Show (2018), a multimedia performance at the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, set the scene for what was called the Science and Technology Winter Olympics in 2022. The second…
Investigating the Determinants of Relative Economic Performance for Irish Towns: A Finite Mixture Modelling Approach
Cullinan J., Garvey E. and Keane M. Investigating the determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns: a finite-mixture modelling approach, Regional Studies. This paper uses a finite-mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns. The main argument put forward is that determinants of success can act in different ways for different groups of towns and the modelling a…
Ethics and Pragmatism: China's Television Producers Confront the Cultural Market
Since its beginnings in 1958, television in China has been hailed as the 'mouthpiece of the Party, the government and the people'. The rapid expansion of the television industry since deregulation policies were introduced in 1983 has significantly compticated this relationship. New doctrines of accounlability and supply-demand economics have been prescribed as blueprints for the success of cultural institutions now forced to survive without state…
A functional distance approach to regionalisation
Keane M. J. (1978) A functional distance approach to regionalisation, Reg. Studies 12, 379–386. The problem of regional delimitation can be viewed as the problem of how to aggregate subareas into regions. Components of this aggregation approach include a set of areas, representing building blocks, a set of criteria, a procedure for aggregating areas, and a method for evaluating alternative aggregations. This paper reports on how this type of meth…
A functional distance approach to regionalisation
Keane M. J. (1978) A functional distance approach to regionalisation, Reg. Studies 12, 379–386. The problem of regional delimitation can be viewed as the problem of how to aggregate subareas into regions. Components of this aggregation approach include a set of areas, representing building blocks, a set of criteria, a procedure for aggregating areas, and a method for evaluating alternative aggregations. This paper reports on how this type of meth…
Regional Development and Language Maintenance
The maintenance of cultural areas is inextricably connected to their ability to survive in economic terms. There is, however, an uneasy relationship between culture and economic development. In this paper, this relationship in an Irish-language-speaking region in the west of Ireland is examined. A model is used to relate measures of language health in census areas to socioeconomic variables and location differences. Some policy and planning issue…
Path analysis technique
Ethics and Pragmatism: China's Television Producers Confront the Cultural Market
Since its beginnings in 1958, television in China has been hailed as the 'mouthpiece of the Party, the government and the people'. The rapid expansion of the television industry since deregulation policies were introduced in 1983 has significantly compticated this relationship. New doctrines of accounlability and supply-demand economics have been prescribed as blueprints for the success of cultural institutions now forced to survive without state…
Advertising Industry and Culture in Post-WTO China
This paper looks at recent developments in the Chinese magazine industry to illustrate trends in advertiser-funded media associated with China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Advertising services are an integral element of the WTO 'wrecking ball' now being wielded to reform the marketplace and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. As the smallest of 'main media' categories, the Chinese magazine industry provides an interesti…
From made in China to created in China
This article provides a macro-perspective on China's repositioning in the global and regional cultural economy, and in doing so questions the structural impact of past practices on future export aspirations. Whereas most accounts of China's media are predicated on top-down control models, the article proposes a media development framework appropriate to China' s aspirations in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The framework is most re…
The Diggi Awards: An ‘agent model’ for creative community-building
Television's New Engines
Internationalization is a key to the success of television formats. To understand format trade it is necessary to draw out distinctions between formats and genre. Engines— innovations in programming engineered by format devisors—allow formats to regenerate and hybridize across genres. The core principle of formats, however, is the practice of franchising. Causal relations can be established between formats, engines, and the tradability of televis…
Investigating the Determinants of Relative Economic Performance for Irish Towns: A Finite Mixture Modelling Approach
Cullinan J., Garvey E. and Keane M. Investigating the determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns: a finite-mixture modelling approach, Regional Studies. This paper uses a finite-mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance for Irish towns. The main argument put forward is that determinants of success can act in different ways for different groups of towns and the modelling a…
Popular online games in the Taiwanese market: An examination of the relationships of media globalization and local media consumption
In many respects, the first decade of the new millennium was one of the most open periods in the history of modern China. While far from the heady enthusiasm of the pre-Communist era, particularly the New Culture Movement (from around 1915 to 1930), during which foreign ideas were introduced to and integrated with indigenous ideas, the cultural scene in China was once again reinvigorated by international influences. Driven by the realization that…
Formats, cultural security and China’s going out policy
This article investigates the relationship between television formats, cultural security and China’s ‘going out’ policy. Cultural security is a term used within Chinese policy circles to advocate the strengthening of media and cultural pursuits with a view to making them effective instruments of national ‘soft power’, a term coined by Joseph Nye (1990). Whereas ‘going out’ refers to Chinese business expansion internationally, in this article it d…
Data on demand
© Authors. This special issue of Global Media & China critically examines the current fascination with indexing, mapping, ranking and metrics worldwide as they apply to nations, regions, municipalities, publications and even citizens. We now live in age of information abundance. This abundance has in turn generated enthusiasm for increasing scrutiny of data, big and small. Many questions therefore arise: how valid is the measurement? Who benefits…
When push comes to nudge: A Chinese digital civilisation in-the-making
China's emergence as a technological power is now unquestioned. Since the early 2000s, the Chinese government has invested heavily in information and communication technology. Rather than seeing the internet as a challenge to its hegemony, the government has allowed leading communications companies to offer new digital services, many of which enhance peoples' lifestyles, while others allow people to express their loyalty to the nation. The Party-…
Struggling to be more visible: Female digital creative entrepreneurs in China
Entrepreneurs have become the driving force of China’s economy over the past few decades. With a rapid surge in the growth of digital platforms, and the success of China’s platforms outside China, the aspiration to be entrepreneurial is recognized and celebrated. Increasingly, women are benefitting from this entrepreneurial fever. However, behind the increasing number of emerging women digital entrepreneurs, is the struggle to gain recognition. D…
Asia as method: Where does China fit
Sino-futurism and alternative imaginaries of Digital China
This paper investigates the role of digital technologies in transforming China's self-image. It focuses on the use of extended reality (XR) in ceremonial events and art exhibitions. The paper offers two case studies. The first study, Beijing 8-Minute Show (2018), a multimedia performance at the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, set the scene for what was called the Science and Technology Winter Olympics in 2022. The second…
Business (8 works) · China (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Advertising (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works)