Steemers, Jeanette

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, children’s media, media in Europe, the international circulation of formats and television programmes, and the media industries in general.

Her work on Pre-School Television was funded by a three years of Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding. She is author of Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum (2010 Palgrave) and co-editor of Media in Today (Intellect, 2011)

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 (BFI, 2004) and co-author of European Television Industries (BFI, 2005).

She is Associate Editor (Europe) for Convergence and also a member of the Euromedia Research Group. She is a Director of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer. Before entering academia she worked as a media industry analyst at CIT Research, London, and Research Manager at HIT Entertainment PLC, a London-based producer, distributor and funder of pre-school television.

Jeanette leads the following modules: Media and Society, Media Around the Globe as well as Media Management Methods, for the MA in Media Management. She is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas: European media, media industries, childrens television, media exports, global media, media institutions, television formats. She supervises and has examined several doctoral theses.


Books

  • Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum (London: Palgrave, 2010). (Sole Author)
  • R. Wise with J. Steemers, Multimedia: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2000).


 Funding Awards

  • 2008-2009 - AHRC – Research Leave Scheme ‘The Changing Production Ecology of Pre-school Television in Britain’(AG/G003572/1). 19 Jan. 2009-18 May 2009(£27,553).
  • 2007-2008 - AHRC – Co-Investigator on ‘Audience and producer engagement with immersive worlds (Case study: CBBC World)’ (AH/F006756/1). 1 July 2007-30 June 2008 (£74,243).
  • 2006-2008 -AHRC Research Grant – Principal Investigatoron ‘The Production Ecology of Pre-School Television in Britain’. 1 Sept 2006-31 August 2008 (ID: 119149) (£127,935).
  • 2002-2003-AHRB - Research Leave Scheme ‘Selling Television: British Television in the Global Marketplace’. Oct. 2002-Sept. 2003(£12,035).
  • 2001-2002-Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for project entitled ‘Selling British Television’. October 2001-September 2002 ( £14,733).
  • Summer 2001-British Academy Grant for ‘Selling British Television: Cultural Industries Policy and International Television Ecologies’(£2,300).
  • 1986-1987-12 Month Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to undertake Phd research at the Institut für Publizistik, University of Mainz, Germany.


Articles in Refereed Journals

  • With A. D‘Arma, ‘Localisation Strategies of US-owned Children’s Television Networks in Five European Markets’.Journal of Children and the Media (in press for 2012)
  • Steemers, J. (2010) ‘The “Canary in the Coalmine”. The Recession and the Crisis in the Production of British Children’s Television Programming”. Popular Communication, Vol. 8, Issue 3 July 2010, pp. 213-17.
  • Steemers, J. (2010) ‘The BBC’s Role in the Changing Production Ecology of Preschool Television in Britain’, Television and New Media, Vol. 11, No. 1, 37-61 (2010).
  • 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

  • Hill, A. and J. Steemers (In press for 2011), ‘Big Formats, Small Nations: Does Size Matter?’in G. Lowe and C. Nissen (eds) Broadcasting in Smaller States (Goteborg: Nordicom,).
  • ‘Little Kids TV: Downloading, Sampling and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experience of the Digital Era’ in J. Bennett & N. Strange (eds) Television as Digital Media (Duke University Press: 2011)
  • Steemers, J. (2011 in press) ‘British Television in the American Marketplace’,in Calen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch (eds) American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations: (Lexington)
  • With E. Vartanova, Laura Saura, and S. Papathanassopoulos (2011) ‘Media Industries: Ownership, Copyright and Regulation’ in J. Trappel, W. Meier, L. D’Haenens, J. Steemers, B. Thomas (eds) Media in Europe Today (Bristol: Intellect, 2011), pp. 169-183.
  • With A. D’Arma, G. Enli ‘Serving Children in Public Service Media’ in G. Lowe (ed.) The Public in Public Service Media (Göteborg: Nordicom: 2010), pp. 227-242 (Refereed Contribution)
  • With A. D’Arma ‘Public Service Media and Children: Serving the Digital Citizens of the Future’ in P. Iosifides (ed.) Reinventing Public Service Communication: European Broadcasters and Beyond (London: Palgrave. 2010), pp. 114-127
  • With A. D’Arma ‘Review of Ofcom’s “The Future of Children’s Television Programming’, Cultural Trends, 18, no. 1 (2009), pp. 77-82.
  • ‘The thin line between market and quality. Balancing quality and commerce in preschool television’ Televizion, 22, 2009, pp. 53-56
  • 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 (Gteborg: 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 (Gteborg: 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.
  • Onlineaktivitaeten 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 Grobritannien', Media Perspektiven, 6, (1998). 287-297.
  • 'Digitale Medienpolitik in Grobritannien'. Media Perspektiven , 7, (1996). 402-408.

Other Articles and Reports

  • Lizzie Jackson, David Gauntlett and Jeanette Steemers (2008) Virtual Worlds: An Overview and Study of BBC Children’s Adventure Rock (BBC, AHRC and Westminster University). Available at http://www.artlab.org.uk/ahrc-bbc-project.htm
  • Lizzie Jackson, David Gauntlett and Jeanette Steemers (2008) Children In Virtual Worlds. Adventure Rock users and producers study (BBC, AHRC and University of Westminster. Available at http://www.artlab.org.uk/ahrc-bbc-project.htm.
  • Children’s Media: Latest Evidence on Consumption’ in Westminster Media Forum Seminar Series, Children’s Media, pp. 10-12.
  • With K. Kondo (2007) Can television be good for children? Report for Save Kids TV. Available at http://www.savekidstv.org.uk/news/can-television-be-good-for-children-by-dr-kaoruko-kondo/