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The explosion of services such as Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, Apple Music, Amazon Prime and YouTube, which allow us to access content at the click of a button, has turned the norms surrounding cultural consumption upside down. How has this shift to an apparently unending supply of content affected the way we consume our favourite binge-worthy show, blockbuster movie or hot new album release?
Positioning streaming alongside a major shift to contemporary capitalism, David Arditi demonstrates that streaming platforms have created an economy where consumers pay more for the same amount of consumptive time. Encouraging us to look beyond the seemingly limitless supply of multimedia content, Arditi calls attention to the underlying dynamics of instant viewing – in which our access to content depends on any given service’s willingness, and ability, to license it.
Price: $25.99
Pages: 184
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: SocietyNow
Publication Date:
15 April 2021
ISBN: 9781839827730
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
'From music to TV to video games, streaming has altered the way that we consume and experience popular culture and goods. In this engaging, highly readable account, David Arditi explains how streaming came to disrupt so many industries and ways of life, exploring its capitalist roots, tendencies, and impacts. Loaded with examples that will speak to every audience, Arditi has produced a text that is astonishing in its depth and breadth and is essential for understanding a modern digital society.'
David Arditi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Caught in the Stream
Chapter 2. Digital Retail: Disruption, Distribution, and Disintermediation
Chapter 3. Streaming Music: Unending Consumption Begins
Chapter 4. Streaming Film: Simultaneous Release, Circumventing Censorship, and Indies
Chapter 5. Streaming TV: The Golden Age of TV and Flow Interrupted
Chapter 6. Streaming Video Games: Never Own a Game Again
Chapter 7. New Cultural Forms: Dominant, Residual, and Emergent
Chapter 8. Conclusion