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