The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

This article reviews the rapid growth of over-the-top (OTT) video services in India, such as
Voot, Hotstar, Netflix, and Amazon, and places their development in the context of the …

This article explores how the political economy of the cultural industries changes through
platformization: the penetration of economic and infrastructural extensions of online …

Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our
contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video …

Hesmondhalgh has done it again! The third edition of The Cultural Industries is a tour-de-
force. At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big …

When the first edition of Understanding New Media was conceived, around 2008, the new
media landscape was very different. So much so that today's internet users would hardly …

Names: Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, editor. Title: A handbook of media and communication
research: qualitative and quantitative methodologies/edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen …

When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a new era of casual
gaming in which video games appealed to not just the stereotypical hardcore male gamer …

The games industry has seen a burst of new interest in the prospect of unionization. The
efforts of organizations like Game Workers Unite have attracted much favorable coverage in …

This article draws on the sociology of expectations to examine the construction of
expectations of 'ethical AI'and considers the implications of these expectations for …