Description
Platforms and Cultural Production is an essential exploration of how digital platforms are reshaping the landscape of cultural production. In this comprehensive analysis, authors Poell, Nieborg, and Duffy delve into the transformative impacts of platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch on traditional media industries. This 260-page book, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2021, highlights the disruption caused by new industrial formations like live streaming, social media influencing, and podcasting.
By examining the intricate processes of platformization, it elucidates the consequences on governance, infrastructure, and market dynamics within cultural industries. The authors focus on key sectors including news, gaming, and social media, and extend their research to include music and advertising. Through rich case studies that span North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China, this work unveils the varying trajectories and cultural implications of platformization across different regions.
Ideal for students, scholars, and policymakers alike, Platforms and Cultural Production provides valuable insights into labor practices, creativity, and democracy in our digital age. The book offers a thought-provoking conceptual framework that is critical for anyone aiming to comprehend the far-reaching effects of platform power on cultural production today.
By examining the intricate processes of platformization, it elucidates the consequences on governance, infrastructure, and market dynamics within cultural industries. The authors focus on key sectors including news, gaming, and social media, and extend their research to include music and advertising. Through rich case studies that span North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, and China, this work unveils the varying trajectories and cultural implications of platformization across different regions.
Ideal for students, scholars, and policymakers alike, Platforms and Cultural Production provides valuable insights into labor practices, creativity, and democracy in our digital age. The book offers a thought-provoking conceptual framework that is critical for anyone aiming to comprehend the far-reaching effects of platform power on cultural production today.