|  | | | Research | | Experience-oriented and interdisciplinary media studies | |  | Interdisciplinary
Practical focus
Cooperation-oriented | | The Erich Pommer Institut functions as an independent, interdisciplinary, practical experience-based, cooperation-oriented research institute. The lively exchange between the sciences, economics, politics, and practical media generates relevant research topics. The results of our research also have a direct influence on the advanced training courses offered by the institute, and the knowledge that is gained is transferred to practical, political, and public sectors.
Forms of media such as film, TV, mobile formats, music, and games and their convergence are the focus of our research. The following areas of research are currently in the foreground:
Media convergence
• Practical, political, and economical aspects of media convergence
• Adequacy of the concept of 'broadcasting'
• Subsidy laws and convergence
• Convergent dynamics in fiction and entertainment sectors
Media utilisation
• Temporally independent media utilisation
• Selection processes in convergent media environments
Media locations
• Training
• Economics
Economic and legal aspects of film, television, mobile media, music, and games
• Inter-media value chains
• New models of financing
• Copyright law and licensing law
Economical and cultural importance of creative industries
• The film and television production economy in Germany
• Festival culture
Program research, program design, and format development
• International TV format trade
• Concepts for the development of 360º formats
• Inter-media narration
Web 2.0: privacy and public accessibility
• Private multimedia communication forms
• Ethics of public accessibility on the Internet
Protection of minors in the media
• Protection of minors in the media in convergent media environments
• Cross-media age ratings
The results of our research are regularly published in publications and essays. The Erich Pommer Institut also produces reports and survey reports for companies, associations, and institutions.
The Erich Pommer Institut is a publisher of 'Schriftenreihe zu Medienwirtschaft und Medienrecht', which appears in Vistas Verlag, and it also organises the magazine series concerning media law, me-dia production, and media economy for Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
Managing director Lothar Mikos is co-publisher of the series 'Alltag, Medien und Kultur' from UVK Verlag and co-publisher of 'Film, Fernsehen, Medienkultur' from VS Verlag.
Current research and studies
Preliminary study of film and television production economy in Germany 2010/2011
>> with the support of the Collecting Society for Film and Television Producers (VFF) and the German Federal Film Board (FFA) in cooperation with the German Producers Alliance
Study regarding understanding of privacy among Web 2.0 users
>> in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam | | | |
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„Mit dem EPI gibt es eine ausgezeichnete Aus- und Weiterbildungsinstitution, die dem Namensgeber in jeder Hinsicht gerecht wird. Wer heute im Film- und Fernsehgeschäft tätig ist, wird das EPI und seine Beiträge in Wissenschaft und Forschung nicht hoch genug einschätzen können! ”
Matthias Peipp, Geschäftsführer
CineAtlantica Entertainment GmbH
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