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
Author(s): Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian Thomas
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 668
City: Los Angeles
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The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy
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Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy
PART I-Key Concepts
1-Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age
2-Platforms and Platformization
3-Meta: A Short Meditation on “Media Economics”
4-Audiences/Users/Publics
5-The Automated Media Economy
PART II-Methodological Approaches
6-Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions
7-“What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology
8-Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development
9-Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens
PART III-Media Industries of the Digital Economy
10-Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+
11-Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification
12-Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming
13-Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music
14-Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism
15-Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem
PART IV-Geographies of the Digital Economy
16-Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media–Economy Matrix
17-Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia
18-Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India
19-Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU
20-Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures
21-Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities
Part V-Law, Governance and Policy
22-Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues
23-Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from Antitrust and Communications Regulation in the 19th and 20th Centuries
24-Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes
25-From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy
26-Policy Futures for Digital Platforms
27-Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy
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