Globalization through the Eyes of Runners: Student Interns as Ethnographers on Runaway Productions in Prague

Abstract

This essay discusses the possibilities for collective ethnography in media industry studies, drawing on my own research into production cultures in the Czech capital of Prague and a European Union-funded project that I head alongside Petr Bilík.2 This EU-funded project aims to facilitate the career development of film studies graduates based outside of Prague, and develop closer links between In academic terms, the project provides us with a chance to reconsider theories of the globalization of media production by observing the operations of global production networks locally