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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



Table of Contents
Editors’ Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy - Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian Thomas PART 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 eBook 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 McMenemy 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

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    Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
    Publication Date: 14/10/2022
    ISBN13: 9781526497994, 978-1526497994
    ISBN10: 1526497999
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    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



    Table of Contents
    Editors’ Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy - Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian Thomas PART 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 eBook 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 McMenemy 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

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