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From Bombay to Bollywood analyzes the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood. Combining ethnographic, institutional, and textual analyses, Aswin Punathambekar explores how relations between state institutions, the Indian diaspora, circuits of capital, and new media technologies and industries have reconfigured the Bombay-based industry's geographic reach. Providing in-depth accounts of the workings of media companies and media professionals, Punathambekar has produced a timely anal

Amit Paul's participation in Indian Idol 3 created chances for interaction across long-standing ethnic, religious, spatial, and linguistic barriers in Meghalaya.

Amit Paul's participation in Indian Idol 3 created chances for interaction across long-standing ethnic, religious, spatial, and linguistic barriers in Meghalaya.

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.

This article examines how catchy sounds ("Why This Kolaveri" ["Why This Murderous Rage"]) can function as sonic cues for political participation. Exploring the sonic dimensions and aural imaginaries at play in mediated public spheres, we show how #Kolaveri became a sound bridge that enabled potent encounters among journalists, politicians, and citizens embroiled in heated debates about corruption in India. Tracing #Kolaveri's movement across media platforms, we analyze three dimensions of the sonic cue―its availability, performativity, and resonance―that gave it a catalytic charge. Suggesting that sound technologies and practices constitute vital cultural and material infrastructures on which a bridge between the popular and the political can be built, we argue that cases like #Kolaveri disclose new ways of listening for the political and new modes of participation―the expression of sonic citizenship―in a digital era.

Over the past decade, a growing body of scholarship in media studies and other cognate disciplines has focused our attention on the social, material, cultural, and political dimensions of the infrastructures that undergird and sustain media and communication networks and cultures across the world. This infrastructural turn assumes greater significance in relation to digital media and in particular, the influence that digital platforms have come to wield. Having 'disrupted' many sectors of social, political, and economic life, many of the most widely used digital platforms now seem to operate as infrastructures themselves. This special issue explores how an infrastructural perspective reframes the study of digital platforms and allows us to pose questions of scale, labor, industry logics, policy and regulation, state power, cultural practices, and citizenship in relation to the routine, everyday uses of digital platforms. In this opening article, we offer a critical overview of media infrastructure studies and situate the study of digital infrastructures and platforms within broader scholarly and public debates on the history and political economy of media infrastructures. We also draw on the study of media industries and production cultures to make the case for an inter-medial and inter-sectoral approach to understanding the entanglements of digital platforms and infrastructures.

This article explores how British Asians negotiated the politics of race in the formative years of British broadcasting from the 1960s to the 1980s. Marked by significant changes within the BBC and British society at large, this period saw the first institutional initiatives oriented towards Caribbean and Asian communities. Drawing on primary research materials from the BBC Written Archives, we analyse the Immigrant Programmes Unit and the Immigrant Programme Advisory Committees as sites where ideas of race, ethnicity and citizenship were continually debated and worked out. We argue that the BBC functioned as a profoundly asymmetrical contact zone in which British Asians' efforts to counter assimilationist ideas and programmes were stymied by senior managers working with deeply ingrained ideas of cultural, ethnic and racial differences. Immigrants would be accommodated, but in ways that would not challenge the viewing habits of the majority or imagine solidarities across racial, ethnic and national lines.

Tracing global shifts in ownership and conglomeration in the media and technology sectors, this introduction analyzes the emergence of the 'megacorp' and 'super app' as distinct forms and sites of media power. With a focus on Asia, we argue that the pairing of megacorps and super apps is driving the emergence of powerful digital companies that shape social, cultural, and political dynamics worldwide. Through analyses of companies including Reliance, SoftBank, Tencent, Alibaba, and Transsion, this special issue calls for a renewed engagement with theories of monopoly capital via the megacorp, and accounts of consumer and citizen experiences of this monopoly via a quotidian touch point, the super app. In conversation with scholarship on conglomerates, monopolies, and platforms as key institutional forms of media power, we show that media power in this digital conjuncture operates as much through national and regional differences as through the imperative to achieve a global scale.

Beginning in 2020, the Crosscurrents section of this journal featured 10 provocative essays on the theme of "Encounters in Western Media Theory." These essays stemmed from scholars' engagements with various canonical texts in media, cultural, and communication studies that took the Anglophone Global North as a taken-for-granted site for making sweeping theoretical claims. In this editorial, we reflect on the critiques and arguments that scholars have developed to move past debates about "internationalizing" and "de-westernizing" the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Taken together, the essays published in this themed section grapple with the shifting terrain of academic knowledge production and the potential for redefining practices of reading, citation, and teaching.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Frameworks and Methods -- 1 Platform Studies -- 2 Productive Ambivalence, Economies of Visibility, and the Political Potential of Feminist YouTubers -- 3 Affect and Autoethnography in Social Media Research -- 4 A Semio- discursive Analysis of Spanish- Speaking BookTubers -- 5 Critical Media Industry Studies The Case of Chinese Livestreaming -- Part II Genres and Communities -- 6 Video Gameplay Commentary Immersive Research in Participatory Cu -- 7 Value, Service, and Precarity among Instagram Content Creators -- 8 Toy Unboxing Creator Communities -- 9 Beyond the Nation Cultural Regions in South Asia's Online Video Communities -- 10 Creativity and Dissent in Arab Creator Culture -- Part III Industries and Governance -- 11 Wanghong Liminal Chinese Creative Labor -- 12 Content Creators and the Field of Advertising -- 13 The Political Economy of Sponsored Content and Social Media Entertainment Production -- 14 Creator Rights and Governance -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Media Distribution Today -- Contributors -- Section 1: Conceptualizing Distribution and Circulation -- 1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research -- 2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition -- 3. Reassessing the "Space in Between": Distribution Studies in Transition -- 4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of Distributors and Publishers -- 5. The Circulation Game: Shifting Production Logics and Circulation Moments in the Digital Games Industry -- 6. Questioning the Content Supply Model: A Provocation -- Section 2: Distribution Ecosystems and Cultures -- 7. "Tech- Tonic" Shifts: The U.S. and China Models of Online Screen Distribution -- 8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India: The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution -- 9. "Sorry about That": Hopes and Promises of Geoblocking's End -- 10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution -- 11. Children's Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses -- 12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVOD Services in Latin America -- 13. VOD: Formal Challengers for Nollywood's Informal Domestic Market -- 14. The King Is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and the Digital Distribution of Adult Film -- 15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution and Discovery in the Book Trade -- 16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value in Digital Distribution -- 17. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday": Black Friday and the Importance of Retail in the Circulation of Media -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

We are all fans. Whether we log on to Web sites to scrutinize the latest plot turns in Lost, "stalk" our favorite celebrities on Gawker, attend gaming conventions, or simply wait with bated breath for the newest Harry Potter novel-each of us is a fan. Fandom extends beyond television and film to literature, opera, sports, and pop music, and encompasses both high and low culture. Fandom brings together leading scholars to examine fans, their practices, and their favorite texts. This unparalleled selection of original essays examines instances across the spectrum of modern cultural consumption from Karl Marx to Paris Hilton, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to backyard wrestling, Bach fugues to Bollywood cinema¸ and nineteenth-century concert halls to computer gaming. Contributors examine fans of high cultural texts and genres, the spaces of fandom, fandom around the globe, the impact of new technologies on fandom, and the legal and historical contexts of fan activity. Fandom is key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world