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Debates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption.
The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective.
PART 1: Key Concepts
PART 2: Methodological Approaches
PART 3: Media Industries of the Digital Economy
PART 4: Geographies of the Digital Economy
PART 5: Law, Governance and Policy
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Table of Content
Editors’ Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy – Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian ThomasPART I: Key Concepts
Chapter 1: Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age – Terry Flew
Chapter 2: Platforms and Platformization – David Niebor, Thomas Poell & Jose van Dijck
Chapter 3: Meta: A Short Meditation on ‘Media Economics’ – Sandra Braman
Chapter 4: Audiences/Users/Publics – Philip Napoli
Chapter 5: The Automated Media Economy – Julian Thomas & Samuel Kininmonth
PART II: Methodological Approaches
Chapter 6: Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions – Leung Wing-Fai
Chapter 7: “What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology – Greg Steirer
Chapter 8: Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development – Jolynna Sinanan, Heather A. Horst & Romitesh Kant
Chapter 9: Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens – Bill Kirkpatrick
PART III: Media Industries of the Digital Economy
Chapter 10: Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ – Oliver Eklund
Chapter 11: Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification – Denis Mann
Chapter 12: Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming – Alenda Chang & Jeff Watson
Chapter 13: Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music – Jeremy Morris
Chapter 14: Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism – Caroline Fisher & Sora Park
Chapter 15: Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From e Book Disruption to Platform Ecosystem – Xiang Ren
PART IV: Geographies of the Digital Economy
Chapter 16: Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media-Economy Matrix – Bruce Mutsvairo & Last Moyo
Chapter 17: Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia – Haiqing Yu
Chapter 18: Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India – Vibodh Parthasarathi & Preeti Raghunath
Chapter 19: Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU – Hilde Van den Bulck
Chapter 20: Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures – Joe F. Khalil
Chapter 21: Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities – Cheryll Ruth Soriano & Jason Vincent Cabanes
PART V: Law, Governance and Policy
Chapter 22: Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues – Robert Picard
Chapter 23: Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from 19th & 20th Centuries Antitrust and Communications Regulation – Dwayne Winseck & Keldon Bester
Chapter 24: Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes – Angela Daly, Darshana Jayemanne & David Mc Menemy
Chapter 25: From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy – James Meese
Chapter 26: Policy Futures for Digital Platforms – Terry Flew
Chapter 27: Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy – Seamus Simpson
About the author
Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers, 2011) and Cloud Policy (MIT Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of Distribution Revolution (University of California Press, 2014); Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming & Sharing Media in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2013); and Media Industries: History, Theory, Method (Blackwell, 2009). She is a co-founder of the Media Industries journal and a member of the journal’s editorial collective.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 672 ● ISBN 9781529762136 ● File size 8.1 MB ● Editor Julian Thomas & Terry Flew ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2022 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8636829 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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