This handbook 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.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Photo Credits.
Contents.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
1: Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy.
2: Key Concepts.
3: Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age.
4: Platforms and Platformization.
5: Meta: A Short Meditation on “Media Economics”.
6: Audiences/Users/Publics.
7: The Automated Media Economy.
8: Methodological Approaches.
9: Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions.
10: “What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology.
11: Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development.
12: Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens.
13: Media Industries of the Digital Economy.
14: Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+.
15: Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification.
16: Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming.
17: Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music.
18: Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism.
19: Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem.
20: Geographies of the Digital Economy.
21: Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media– Economy Matrix.
22: Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia.
23: Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India.
24: Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU.
25: Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures.
