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[Commlist] New book: Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines

Thu Sep 09 12:05:08 GMT 2021




NEW TITLE JUST OUT!

DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION: PORTALS, PLATFORMS, PIPELINES
Edited by Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue and Timothy Havens

Full details at the New York University Press site
https://nyupress.org/9781479806782/digital-media-distribution/

A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution.

In the twenty-first century, the platforms that create and host content have become nearly as important as media themselves. Companies such as Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube have attained a massive hold on the public imagination and have become an almost ineluctable part of people’s everyday lives. While the workings of media distribution had until very recently remained inconsequential to the average consumer, the recent popularization of online platforms has made the question of distribution immediate to everyone.

Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines provides a timely examination of the multifaceted distribution landscape in a moment of transformation and conceptualizes media distribution as a complex site of power, privilege, and gatekeeping. These tensions have local, national, and global consequences for the autonomy of creative workers, as well as on how we gain access to, engage with, and understand cultural products. Drawing on original research into distribution practices in industries as diverse as television, film, videogames, literature, and adult entertainment, each chapter explores how digitization has changed media distribution and its broader economic, industrial, social, and cultural implications.

Bringing together experts from around the world and across the media industries, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines presents a vast array of critical approaches and illustrative case studies for understanding the factors that have an impact on the way media travels and moves throughout our digital lives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Media Distribution Today Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Tim Havens and Paul McDonald
 SECTION 1: CONCEPTUALIZING DISTRIBUTION AND CIRCULATION
1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research Joshua A. Braun 2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition Amanda D. Lotz 3. Reassessing the “Space in Between”: Distribution Studies in Transition Alisa Perren 4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of Distributors and Publishers Virginia Crisp 5. The Circulation Game: Shifting Production Logics and Circulation Moments in the Digital Games Industry Aphra Kerr
6. Questioning the Content Supply Model: A Provocation Patrick Vonderau
 SECTION 2: DISTRIBUTION ECOSYSTEMS AND CULTURES
7. “Tech-Tonic” Shifts: The US and China Models of Online Screen Distribution Stuart Cunningham and David Craig 8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India: The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan
9. “Sorry About That”: Hopes and Promises of Geoblocking’s End Evan Elkins
10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution Joonseok Choi
11. Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers 12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVoD Services in Latin America Juan Piñon and Ezequiel Rivero
13. Formal Challengers for Nollywood’s Informal Domestic Market Jade Miller
14. The King is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and the Digital Distribution of Adult Film Peter Alilunas 15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution and Discovery in the Book Trade Julian Thomas 16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value in Digital Distribution Ramon Lobato 17. “Every Day Should Be a Holiday”: Black Friday and the Importance of Retail in the Circulation of Media Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson

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