The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy

Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015) and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), and Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021).  He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020 and is currently an Executive Board member of the ICA. He was elected an ICA Fellow in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2019. He has held visiting professor roles at City University, London and George Washington University, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Communications University of China, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment (Rutgers, 2011) and Cloud Policy (MIT Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of Distribution Revolution (University of California Press, 2014); Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming & Sharing Media in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2013); and Media Industries: History, Theory, Method (Blackwell, 2009). She is a co-founder of the Media Industries journal and a member of the journal’s editorial collective.

• Editors’ Introduction: Positioning the Digital Media Economy - Terry Flew, Jennifer Holt, Julian ThomasPART I: Key ConceptsChapter 1: Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age - Terry FlewChapter 2: Platforms and Platformization - David Niebor, Thomas Poell & Jose van DijckChapter 3: Meta: A Short Meditation on "Media Economics" - Sandra BramanChapter 4: Audiences/Users/Publics - Philip NapoliChapter 5: The Automated Media Economy - Julian Thomas & Samuel KininmonthPART II: Methodological ApproachesChapter 6: Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions - Leung Wing-FaiChapter 7: “What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology - Greg SteirerChapter 8: Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development - Jolynna Sinanan, Heather A. Horst & Romitesh KantChapter 9: Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens - Bill KirkpatrickPART III: Media Industries of the Digital EconomyChapter 10: Streaming Platforms and the Frontiers of Digital Distribution: ‘Unique Content Regions’ on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ - Oliver EklundChapter 11: Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification - Denis MannChapter 12: Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming - Alenda Chang & Jeff WatsonChapter 13: Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music - Jeremy MorrisChapter 14: Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism - Caroline Fisher & Sora ParkChapter 15: Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem - Xiang RenPART IV: Geographies of the Digital EconomyChapter 16: Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media-Economy Matrix - Bruce Mutsvairo & Last MoyoChapter 17: Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia - Haiqing YuChapter 18: Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India - Vibodh Parthasarathi & Preeti RaghunathChapter 19: Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU - Hilde Van den BulckChapter 20: Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures - Joe F. KhalilChapter 21: Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities - Cheryll Ruth Soriano & Jason Vincent CabanesPART V: Law, Governance and PolicyChapter 22: Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues - Robert PicardChapter 23: Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from 19th & 20th Centuries Antitrust and Communications Regulation - Dwayne Winseck & Keldon BesterChapter 24: Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes - Angela Daly, Darshana Jayemanne & David McMenemyChapter 25: From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy - James MeeseChapter 26: Policy Futures for Digital Platforms - Terry FlewChapter 27: Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy - Seamus Simpson