The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy

Debates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption. The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective. PART 1: Key Concepts; PART 2: Methodological Approaches; PART 3: Media Industries of the Digital Economy; PART 4: Geographies of the Digital Economy; and PART 5: Law, Governance and Policy Half Title Page The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy Title Page Copyright Page Contents About the Editors About the Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy PART I-Key Concepts 1-Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age 2-Platforms and Platformization 3-Meta: A Short Meditation on “Media Economics” 4-Audiences/Users/Publics 5-The Automated Media Economy PART II-Methodological Approaches 6-Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions 7-“What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology 8-Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development 9-Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens PART III-Media Industries of the Digital Economy 10-Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ 11-Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification 12-Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming 13-Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music 14-Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism 15-Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem PART IV-Geographies of the Digital Economy 16-Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media–Economy Matrix 17-Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia 18-Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India 19-Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU 20-Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures 21-Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities Part V-Law, Governance and Policy 22-Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues 23-Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from Antitrust and Communications Regulation in the 19th and 20th Centuries 24-Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes 25-From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy 26-Policy Futures for Digital Platforms 27-Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy Index