Netflix Nations : : The Geography of Digital Distribution / / Ramon Lobato.
How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of...
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Lobato, Ramon, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Netflix Nations : The Geography of Digital Distribution / Ramon Lobato. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource : 20 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Cultural Communication ; 28 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. What is Netflix? -- 2. Transnational television: from broadcast to broadband -- 3. The infrastructures of streaming -- 4. Making global markets -- 5. Content, catalogs, and cultural imperialism -- 6. The proxy wars -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How streaming services and internet distribution have transformed global television culture.Television, once a broadcast medium, now also travels through our telephone lines, fiber optic cables, and wireless networks. It is delivered to viewers via apps, screens large and small, and media players of all kinds. In this unfamiliar environment, new global giants of television distribution are emerging-including Netflix, the world's largest subscription video-on-demand service.Combining media industry analysis with cultural theory, Ramon Lobato explores the political and policy tensions at the heart of the digital distribution revolution, tracing their longer history through our evolving understanding of media globalization. Netflix Nations considers the ways that subscription video-on-demand services, but most of all Netflix, have irrevocably changed the circulation of media content. It tells the story of how a global video portal interacts with national audiences, markets, and institutions, and what this means for how we understand global media in the internet age.Netflix Nations addresses a fundamental tension in the digital media landscape - the clash between the internet's capacity for global distribution and the territorial nature of media trade, taste, and regulation. The book also explores the failures and frictions of video-on-demand as experienced by audiences. The actual experience of using video platforms is full of subtle reminders of market boundaries and exclusions: platforms are geo-blocked for out-of-region users ("this video is not available in your region"); catalogs shrink and expand from country to country; prices appear in different currencies; and subtitles and captions are not available in local languages. These conditions offer rich insight for understanding the actual geographies of digital media distribution. Contrary to popular belief, the story of Netflix is not just an American one. From Argentina to Australia, Netflix's ascension from a Silicon Valley start-up to an international television service has transformed media consumption on a global scale. Netflix Nations will help readers make sense of a complex, ever-shifting streaming media environment. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) International broadcasting. Streaming video. Television broadcasting. Video-on-demand. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications. bisacsh Canada. China. Europe. India. Japan. MTV. Netflix. UNESCO. audiences. bandwidth. broadcasting. circumvention. cloud storage. consumption. content delivery networks. cosmopolitanism. cultural imperialism. cultural policy. digital markets. digital media studies. digital rights management. download speeds. future of television. geoblocking. geolocation. georestriction. global markets. global media. global television. globalization. intellectual property. internet studies. internet television. live streaming. local content. localization. media ontology. net neutrality. new media theory. one-way flow. piracy. platform studies. satellite television. science and technology studies. streaming. television audiences. television history. television studies. television trade. television. transnational television. virtual private network (VPN). Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 9783110722727 print 9781479841516 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479882281 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781479882281.jpg |
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