Timothy Havens
Biographic Data
| ID | 5776447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Havens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Havens |
| SIGNATURE | HAVENS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Netflix
Netflix’s global expansion has required new innovations in the channel brand hierarchy as the company seeks to promote both its service and its programming in unfamiliar territories. Examining strategies of translation and personalization closely reveals how brand hierarchies are increasingly rooted in the technological affordances of different content delivery systems
Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both create and host content have become nearly as important as media itself. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become an almost ineluctable part of people’s everyday lives. While the workings of media distribution had until very recently remained …
Netflix
Netflix’s branding strategies employ meaning hierarchies similar to broadcast-era television channels, due to shared tensions between their general entertainment appeals and their need for differentiation from competitors’ programming. Recent global expansion has led Netflix to complicate its brand hierarchies to promote itself and its programming in unfamiliar territories
Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen—Havens complicates discussions of racial…
Introduction: African American Television Trade
Introduction: Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe
The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline - by Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy Tunstall’s The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Declineprovides an encyclopedic study of mass media around the world. As the small change in verb tense since his 1977 The Media Are Americansuggests, Tunstall argues in this new volume that the worldwide influence of U.S. mass media peaked in the 1950s. In place of American media dominance, he sees the development of distinct regions within which media content and financing circulate:…
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
"It's still a white world out there": The interplay of culture and economics in international television trade
Drawing on interviews with more than thirty international television executives from around the world, this article provides a case study of how distribution and acquisition practices in international television trade extract profit from television culture. While previous research in international television has tended to ignore or to oversimplify the importance of the distribution industry, this article demonstrates how studying distribution giv…
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen—Havens complicates discussions of racial…
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
The biggest show in the world: Race and the global popularity of The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show changed the face of international television distribution as profoundly as it altered American television culture. However, while many scholars have addressed the show's domestic popularity, its international acceptance remains a virtual mystery. This article investigates the various economic, textual and audience practices that led to The Cosby Show's international success, and that continue to make middle-class African American s…
Subtitling Rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait
This article reports the findings of a pilot study of a single African-American situation comedy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among a small number of young viewers in the nation of Kuwait. It is intended as a first step toward investigating the popularity of black and African-American youth styles among young people from various parts of the globe, and the conclusions that the author reaches are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. …
"It's still a white world out there": The interplay of culture and economics in international television trade
Drawing on interviews with more than thirty international television executives from around the world, this article provides a case study of how distribution and acquisition practices in international television trade extract profit from television culture. While previous research in international television has tended to ignore or to oversimplify the importance of the distribution industry, this article demonstrates how studying distribution giv…
The hybrid grid: Globalization, cultural power and Hungarian television schedules
While television scheduling practices overdetermine a host of institutional and cultural practices, including program import decisions and the popularity of specific programs, scheduling has received scant attention from critical media scholars. Drawing on the insight that contemporary scheduling practices - like most media practices today - are hybrid phenomena, this article demonstrates in some detail the variety of factors, both foreign and do…
The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline - by Jeremy Tunstall
Jeremy Tunstall’s The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Declineprovides an encyclopedic study of mass media around the world. As the small change in verb tense since his 1977 The Media Are Americansuggests, Tunstall argues in this new volume that the worldwide influence of U.S. mass media peaked in the 1950s. In place of American media dominance, he sees the development of distinct regions within which media content and financing circulate:…
Introduction: Popular Television in Central and Eastern Europe
Introduction: African American Television Trade
Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe
“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore, taste cultures, and the multiple stories of black experiences that have and have not made it onto the small screen—Havens complicates discussions of racial…
Netflix
Netflix’s branding strategies employ meaning hierarchies similar to broadcast-era television channels, due to shared tensions between their general entertainment appeals and their need for differentiation from competitors’ programming. Recent global expansion has led Netflix to complicate its brand hierarchies to promote itself and its programming in unfamiliar territories
Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both create and host content have become nearly as important as media itself. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become an almost ineluctable part of people’s everyday lives. While the workings of media distribution had until very recently remained …
Netflix
Netflix’s global expansion has required new innovations in the channel brand hierarchy as the company seeks to promote both its service and its programming in unfamiliar territories. Examining strategies of translation and personalization closely reveals how brand hierarchies are increasingly rooted in the technological affordances of different content delivery systems
Computer Science (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Business (4 works) · History (4 works) · Advertising (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)