- Blurb -
A deep dive into the new era of digital content production and distribution In the twenty-first century, the platforms that both create and host content have become nearly as important as media itself. 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 various 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 on 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.
- Titles in the Series -
Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation After 9/11
Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture
Celebrity: A History of Fame
Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times
Critical Cultural Communication: Dot-Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web
Critical Cultural Communication: Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry
Critical Cultural Communication: Identity Trade, The: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Critical Cultural Communication: Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture
Critical Cultural Communication: Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries
Critical Cultural Communication: Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution
Critical Cultural Communication: Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life
Digital Black Feminism
Digital City, The: Media and the Social Production of Place
Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste
Identity Trade, The: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Visualizing Atrocity: Arendt, Evil, and the Optics of Thoughtlessness
Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
- Reviews -
A collection of cutting-edge scholarship defining one of the most vital areas in media studies today. As distribution practices, logics, and markets continue to transform, this book provides the conceptual tools that make it all meaningful. A critical resource for all students and scholars of media industries. * Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara * A rich and varied collection on a crucial issue for the thriving field of media industry studies. * David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds *
- Author Bio -
Paul McDonald is Professor of Media Industries at King' s College London. His publications include Video and DVD Industries (2007) and Hollywood Stardom (2013), and the co-editing of The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry (2008) and Hollywood and the Law (2015). He co-edits the International Screen Industries book series from the British Film Institute. Courtney Brannon Donoghue is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts at the University of North Texas. Her publications include Localising Hollywood (British Film Institute Press, 2017) and have appeared in Cinema Journal, Feminist Media Studies, Media, Culture & Society, and various edited collections. Timothy Havens is Associate Professor of Television and Media Studies in the Department of Communication Studies, the Program in African American Studies, and the Program in International Studies at the University of Iowa.
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9781479806782 |
Published: | 7 Sep 2021 |
Published In: | United States |
Imprint: | New York University Press |
Publisher: | New York University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Pages: | 416 |
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