The Media Entertainment Success Cycle

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2024
Host editors
  • T. Araujo
  • P. Neijens
Book title Communication Research into the Digital Society
Book subtitle Fundamental Insights from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research
ISBN
  • 9789048560592
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789048560608
Pages (from-to) 101-120
Publisher Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract
The Media Entertainment Success Cycle (MESC) provides a comprehensive theoretical framework that can help researchers identify and understand the supply and demand processes that govern successful entertainment media. The supply process encompasses entertainment development and distribution, aimed at providing an immersive and engaging experience. The demand process illustrates how individual responses and effects influence preference and motivation for the selection of entertainment products. Positive reception not only encourages increased user engagement with similar content but also stimulates the development of similar products within the entertainment industry. The MESC summarises entertainment research within an integrative framework where industry supply and user demand are two mutually reinforcing processes that perpetuate successful media entertainment.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11895525.9 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048560608-007
Published at https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87672
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