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This chapter analyses the changing forms, functions, and roles of publishing in light of the turn towards media industry studies. Building on the aims of the book to explore ways of making academic research more valuable to media industry stakeholders, this chapter examines how research findings have been made meaningful to commercial media partners and ‘translated’ via more non-academic formats, such as reports. The chapter also explore the effectiveness of other methods of making academic research speak to a media industry audience, such as festivals, museum exhibits, and archives. Re-thinking the whole idea of academic publishing, Emily Caston’s case study ends the chapter by reflecting on what publishing means in her experience of working collaboratively with creative practitioners from the music industry.

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Freeman, M. (2016). Publishing Media Industry Research. In: Industrial Approaches to Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55176-4_9

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