English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032067790 | 380 pages| Epub PDF (True) | 45 MB
Profound transformations in the ways media products are produced, distributed and consumed caused by digital technologies that have 'disrupted' established business models, markets and relationships, has led to a renewed interest in the industry's spatial patterning and hence the importance of place in which locality, paradoxically in an era of globalisation, has been seen as having heightened significance. This renewed interest in space and location - sometimes characterised as the 'spatial turn' in media studies - has become a particularly pressing and urgent issue across Europe over the last decade as the effects of digital disruption become more pervasive. In an era of the increasing internationalisation of media production and an orientation to global markets, policy makers have recognised the importance of preserving, even enhancing this spatial plurality. As many studies have shown, the strength and influence of Public Service Media, - which have traditionally embraced this role of cultural identity-building, albeit with mixed results - has weakened in the face of increasingly powerful alternative providers: satellite channels or streaming platforms. These competitors, such as Sky or Netflix, operate to a global commercial logic in which 'territories' - not defined by either established national or regional boundaries - are conceived as markets not cultures. This new logic does not entirely displace or supersede the older logics of analogue broadcasting but introduces new layers of spatial complexity that need to be investigated and analysed.
The Politics Of Place: Space And Locality In The European Screen Industries
