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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ramon Lobato |
ISBN: | 9781479841516 147984151X 9781479804948 1479804940 |
OCLC Number: | 1038039483 |
Description: | xii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction. Understanding Internet-distributed television as an ecology ; Why Netflix? -- 1. What is Netflix?. Television studies and the future-of-TV debate ; Digital media studies and the platform perspective ; Toward a synthesis -- 2. Transnational television: from broadcast to broadband. From national to transnational television - and back ; Spatial logics of television distribution ; Rethinking the transnational -- 3. The infrastructures of streaming. The infrastructural optic ; Digital divides and download speeds ; Politics and bandwidth ; Netflix and the net neutrality debate ; Clouds and CDNs ; The long view -- 4. Making global markets. Global television, local markets ; Long-distance localization ; The unavoidable labor of localization ; India ; Japan ; China -- 5. Content, catalogs, and cultural imperialism. Revisiting the one-way flow ; Netflix catalogs and media policy in Europe ; The Canadian situation ; Do audiences actually want local content (on Netflix)? -- 6. The proxy wards. User practices and platform policies ; Historicizing Netflix's shifting policies on geoblocking ; Making sense of the policy shifts ; Cultural consequences of the proxy wars -- Conclusions. Old and new lessons ; Streaming beyond Netflix. |
Series Title: | Critical cultural communication. |
Responsibility: | Ramon Lobato. |
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Netflix Nations is an important and timely addition to the existing scholarly literature on the digital distribution of television and how it is changing the digital landscape. It is one of the first studies of the global geography of online television distribution that explores the digital media landscape and how the internet's capacity for world distribution of television clashes with national media trade, and taste and moral values. Ramon Lobato explores how the digital distribution of the television reshaping modern civilization. This well-researched, nuanced and brilliantly-written will [change] the way you think of media, globalization, and power. * The Washington Book Review * In exploring how internet-distributed television services are reshaping the national boundaries of the industry, Lobato offers a cutting-edge study that advances our understanding of Netflix and cultural globalization and reconceptualizes the relationship between 'old' and 'new' media. Netflix Nations will change the way we think about infrastructure, globalization, power, and the television we know and love. -- Amanda D. Lotz, author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized In this most valuable book, Lobato gives us a highly nuanced account of the global spread of Netflix that emphasizes how extraordinarily diverse are the infrastructural, policy, and consumption conditions within which it finds is place. The breadth of the research is impressive, and its insistence on a comparative approach across (at least) four continents brings a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the Netflix phenomenon. -- Graeme Turner, author of Re-Inventing the Media Lobato's ability to synthesize complex and wide-ranging discussions within the field and offer fruitful definitional attempts makes Netflix Nations a very valuable contribution to rethinking the current state of (Internet) television affairs, specifically as it pertains to Netflix as a case study. * Journal of Digital Media & Policy * Netflix Nations is theoretically rich and comprehensive. Displaying a deep knowledge of history and scholarship, Lobato skillfully brings to light underlying philosophies of platforms and expands upon intricate studies in television and media from around the world. * International Journal of Communication * Netflix Nations is a scholarly yet highly readable guide to understanding the transformations brought about by the increasingly global availability of Internet-distributed television. * Film Quarterly * Read more...


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