Recent Research

Peer-Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Research Reports from 2025 and 2026

Johnson, Peter Arne. 2026. “Revisiting the Financial Interest & Syndication Rules: A Discursive and Industrial Analysis of U.S. Television Production, 1971–1990.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.

deWaard, Andrew, Shawna Kidman, Miranda Banks, and Peter Arne Johnson. 2026. The Costs of Consolidation: The Argument and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount Warner Bros. Merger (Media and Consolidation Research Organization (MACRO) Lab), Research Report.

Johnson, Peter Arne. 2025. “The Financial Ecologies of Transnational Television Production: ‘Following the Money’ from Private Equity to Sky Germany’s Pagan Peak,” Media, Culture & Society 47 (6).

Johnson, Peter Arne, and Kathryn G. Hartzell. 2025. “CrossFit Games and the Sport-Media Complex.” In CrossFit: Commodity, Community, Contested Terrain, edited by Marcelle Dawson and Steven Jackson. Palgrave Macmillan.

Johnson, Peter Arne. 2025. “Silicon Hills: The Central Texas High-Tech Industry & Media Industry Crossovers,” Texas Media Industries, White Paper, Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, University of Texas at Austin.

Johnson, Peter Arne, and Colin Crawford. 2027. Forthcoming “Apple TV: Studios, Silos, & Loots.” In From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels, edited by Derek Johnson. 3rd ed. Routledge.