Digital Media Distribution : : Portals, Platforms, Pipelines / / ed. by Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Paul McDonald, Timothy Havens.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Alilunas, Peter,; Braun, Joshua,; Choi, Joonseok,; Craig, David,; Crisp, Virginia,; Cunningham, Stuart,; Donoghue, Courtney,; Elkins, Evan,; Havens, Timothy,; Herbert, Daniel,; Johnson, Derek,; Kerr, Aphra,; Lobato, Ramon,; Lotz, Amanda,; McDonald, Paul,; Miller, Jade,; Mohan, Sriram,; Perren, Alisa,; Piñón, Juan,; Punathambekar, Aswin,; Rivero, Ezequiel,; Sakr, Naomi,; Steemers, Jeanette,; Thomas, Julian,; Vonderau, Patrick,
• HerausgeberIn: Donoghue, Courtney Brannon,; Havens, Timothy,; McDonald, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Cultural Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 5 b/w illustrations

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Media Distribution Today -- Contributors -- Section 1: Conceptualizing Distribution and Circulation -- 1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research -- 2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition -- 3. Reassessing the “Space in Between”: Distribution Studies in Transition -- 4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of Distributors and Publishers -- 5. The Circulation Game: Shifting Production Logics and Circulation Moments in the Digital Games Industry -- 6. Questioning the Content Supply Model: A Provocation -- Section 2: Distribution Ecosystems and Cultures -- 7. “Tech- Tonic” Shifts: The U.S. and China Models of Online Screen Distribution -- 8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India: The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution -- 9. “Sorry about That”: Hopes and Promises of Geoblocking’s End -- 10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution -- 11. Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses -- 12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVOD Services in Latin America -- 13. VOD: Formal Challengers for Nollywood’s Informal Domestic Market -- 14. The King Is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and the Digital Distribution of Adult Film -- 15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution and Discovery in the Book Trade -- 16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value in Digital Distribution -- 17. “Every Day Should Be a Holiday”: Black Friday and the Importance of Retail in the Circulation of Media -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index