The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy

PART I: Key Concepts

Chapter 1: Global Internet Governance in a Post-Global Age
Chapter 2: Platforms and Platformization
Chapter 3: Meta: A Short Meditation on "Media Economics"
Chapter 4: Audiences/Users/Publics
Chapter 5: The Automated Media Economy

PART II: Methodological Approaches

Chapter 6: Labour and Work in the Digital Media Economy: Emerging Debates and Future Directions
Chapter 7: “What Is Your Business Model?”: A Critical Genealogy of the Business Model as Concept and Methodology
Chapter 8: Infrastructuring in the Global South: Ethnographic Perspectives on Tourism, Media and Development
Chapter 9: Digital Media Economy Through a Disability Lens

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+
Chapter 11: Stranger Things Have Happened: Netflix Pivots to Embedded Commodification
Chapter 12: Steam Clouds and Game Streams: Unboxing the “Future” of Gaming
Chapter 13: Live at the App: The Economics, Platforms, and Technologies of Livestreamed Music
Chapter 14: Economic and Existential Challenges Facing Journalism
Chapter 15: Understanding the Digital Publishing Economy: From eBook Disruption to Platform Ecosystem

PART IV: Geographies of the Digital Economy

Chapter 16: Going Beyond the Digital Divide Debate: Critical Reflections on the African Digital Media-Economy Matrix
Chapter 17: Chinese Platform Economy Sans Frontières: Case Studies from Australia
Chapter 18: Expanding Horizons of Media Bazaars: Topography of the DME in India
Chapter 19: Public Service Media in the Digital Economy: A View from the EU
Chapter 20: Beyond Revolutions, Digital Media Economy in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures
Chapter 21: Solidaristic Formations among Cloud Workers in the Platform Economy: Entrepreneurial Logics with Resistant Identities

PART V: Law, Governance and Policy

Chapter 22: Competition, Monopoly, and Antitrust Issues
Chapter 23: Regulation for a More Democratic Internet: Lessons from 19th & 20th Centuries Antitrust and Communications Regulation
Chapter 24: Global Playgrounds: Young People, Digital Citizenship and Loot Boxes
Chapter 25: From Protocols to Platforms: The Changing Face of Online Piracy
Chapter 26: Policy Futures for Digital Platforms
Chapter 27: Global Internet Governance and the Digital Media Economy