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Streaming Wars: Exclusive content and platform competition in Latin America
Media streaming platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video, Claro Video or Netflix, are finding an increasing need to fight over new subscribers. The competition is
Cultural Policy and Cultural Value: A Disconnect? Perspectives from Australia, the Netherlands and the UK
In addition to devastating the arts sector, COVID-19 has made it abundantly clear that Australia’s cultural policy has been long neglected. In place of a
#GenderMattersFail
At the end of August, Screen Australia released a self-congratulatory media announcement claiming they had exceeded their (admittedly low) target of 25% participation for women
This Week: Kinomatics Symposium #3 – Risking Diversity and the Creative Industries
We are excited to hold the third annual Kinomatics Symposium at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) at the end of this week (February 28–March
Testing the ‘10% Rule’
A research paper “Understanding the dynamics between the United States and Australian film markets: testing the ‘10% rule’” by Kinomatics members Vejune Zemaityte, Deb Verhoeven
Redistributing Gender
How bad is gender inequality in the global filmindustry? It is much worse than you think. The Kinomatics team have been examining our Showtime Dataset
Culture, Meaning and #DataToo : The 2nd International Kinomatics Symposium
The data is in – 16 speakers, 2 workshops, 3 panels and <retracted> bottles of beer later and its a wrap for the 2nd International
Second Kinomatics Symposium
The Second Kinomatics Symposium will be held at UTS on Thursday April 5 and Friday April 6. Join us for any or all of three
The “Gender Offender” analysis: How and Why We Did It (Part Two)
Read Part One of this post here. PART 2. Visualising Male Producer Networks This aspect of the project was undertaken by Stuart Palmer. This data
The “Gender Offender” analysis: How and Why We Did It (Part One)
Introduction Deb Verhoeven Statistics describing the parlous conditions for women in the Australian film industry have been gathered and circulated for more than 30 years.
An outline for an intersectional feminist Digital Humanities
In September, Deb traveled to KU Leuven to give the opening keynote at a conference on Intersectionality in the Digital Humanities. Her focus was twofold,
Kinomatics Goes Global
Like the movies we study, Kinomatics has been traversing the globe lately. In May, Deb presented our most recent research that uses our “big data”