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

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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