Table Of ContentDigital Media Distribution
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Critical Cultural Communication
General Editors: Jonathan Gray, Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw
Founding Editors: Sarah Banet- Weiser and Kent A. Ono
Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in Technomobility in China: Young
the Media Migrant Women and Mobile Phones
Isabel Molina- Guzmán Cara Wallis
The Net Effect: Romanticism, Love and Money: Queers, Class, and
Capitalism, and the Internet Cultural Production
Thomas Streeter Lisa Henderson
Our Biometric Future: Facial Cached: Decoding the Internet in
Recognition Technology and the Global Popular Culture
Culture of Surveillance Stephanie Ricker Schulte
Kelly A. Gates
Black Television Travels: African
Critical Rhetorics of Race American Media around the Globe
Edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent Timothy Havens
A. Ono
Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media,
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and and the Nation
Transnational Media Cultures Hector Amaya
Edited by Radha S. Hegde
Feeling Mediated: A History of Media
Commodity Activism: Cultural Technology and Emotion in America
Resistance in Neoliberal Times Brenton J. Malin
Edited by Roopali Mukherjee and
The Post- Racial Mystique: Media and
Sarah Banet- Weiser
Race in the Twenty- First Century
Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race Catherine R. Squires
and Representation after 9/11
Making Media Work: Cultures of
.devre Evelyn Alsultany Management in the Entertainment
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Asian American Media Activism: Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in
Fighting for Cultural Citizenship Digital Entertainment Culture
Lori Kido Lopez Evan Elkins
Struggling For Ordinary: Media and The Digital City: Media and the Social
Transgender Belonging in Everyday Production of Place
Life Germaine R. Halegoua
Andre Cavalcante
Distributed Blackness: African
Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in American Cybercultures
the Twenty- First Century André Brock, Jr.
Suzanne Leonard
Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and
Homegrown: Identity and Difference in Black Digital Networks
the American War on Terror Sarah Florini
Piotr Szpunar
Dislike- Minded: Media, Audiences,
Dot- Com Design: The Rise of a Usable, and the Dynamics of Distaste
Social, Commercial Web Jonathan Gray
Megan Sapnar Ankerson
Digital Media Distribution: Portals,
Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Platforms, Pipelines
Media, and the Uses of Strategic Edited by Paul McDonald, Courtney
Ambiguity Brannon Donoghue, and Timothy
Ralina L. Joseph Havens
Netflix Nations: The Geography of
Digital Distribution
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Digital Media Distribution
Portals, Platforms, Pipelines
Edited by
Paul McDonald,
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, and
Timothy Havens
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York
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© 2021 by New York University
All rights reserved
References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the
author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or
changed since the manuscript was prepared.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McDonald, Paul, 1963– editor. | Brannon Donoghue, Courtney, editor. |
Havens, Timothy, editor.
Title: Digital media distribution : portals, platforms, pipelines / edited by Paul McDonald,
Courtney Brannon Donoghue and Timothy Havens.
Description: New York : New York University Press, [2021] | Series: Critical cultural
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Introduction: Media Distribution Today 1
Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy Havens, and
Paul McDonald
Section 1: Conceptualizing Distribution
and Circulation
1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research 27
Joshua A. Braun
2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television
Distribution and Exhibition 47
Amanda D. Lotz
3. Reassessing the “Space in Between”: Distribution Studies in
Transition 67
Alisa Perren
4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of
Distributors and Publishers 87
Virginia Crisp
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8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India:
The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution 164
Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan
9. “Sorry about That”: Hopes and Promises of
Geoblocking’s End 183
Evan Elkins
10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution 202
Joonseok Choi
11. Children’s Television in an Era of Digital Distribution:
Arab and European Responses 222
Naomi Sakr and Jeanette Steemers
12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVOD Services
in Latin America 242
Juan Piñón and Ezequiel Rivero
13. VOD: Formal Challengers for Nollywood’s Informal
Domestic Market 259
Jade L. Miller
14. The King Is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and
the Digital Distribution of Adult Film 277
Peter Alilunas
15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution
and Discovery in the Book Trade 295
Julian Thomas
16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value
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Figures
4.1 A Model of Gatekeeping Power across Five Creative
Industries (Film, TV, Digital Games, Books,
and Music) 92
8.1 South of India: An Early Example of YouTube Channels
Imagining a Peninsular Region 175
8.2 Echoing the South of India Video, Another Reference to
the Widely Held Stereotype of All South Indians Being
“Madraasee” in HTP 177
9.1 The Geoblocked Hulu Platform 186
10.1 Netflix’s Office on Floor 4 of the Palais 212
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