Digital platforms and the global south : reconfiguring power relations in the cultural industries

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"Digital platforms and the global south : reconfiguring power relations in the cultural industries"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide and Tristan Mattelart
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2024
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk

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Summary:"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who each explore these issues through an insightful case study at a local, national, regional or international scale. While studying the strategies of some of the main US-based Big Tech platforms or video streaming platforms towards the Global South, the chapters also consider the often-neglected active role local or regional actors play in the expansion of those Western digital players, and highlight the existence of a constellation of local or regional platforms that have emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East. In addition to analysing the complex relationships of competition, collaboration or dependence between these diverse actors, this volume examines the ways in which the rise of these

Includes bibliographical references and index

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