Locked Out : Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture /

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A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era "This content is not available in your country." At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elkins, Evan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Critical Cultural Communication ; 14
Temas:
Digital media.
Entertainment computing.
Interactive multimedia.
Motion pictures > Distribution.
Multimedia systems.
Trade regulation.
Video games industry.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics.
BBC.
DVD.
Spotify.
activism.
cinephilia.
cosmopolitanism.
cultural capital.
diaspora.
digital rights management.
distribution.
gamers.
geoblocking.
globalization.
governance.
hacking.
internet.
media literacy.
mobility.
music.
piracy.
region code.
region codes.
regional lockout.
regulation.
streaming.
video games.
video on demand.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Regional Lockout as Technology, Distribution, and Culture
  • 1. DVD Region Codes: Technical Standards and Geocultural Status
  • 2. Console Games: How Regional Lockout Shaped the Video Game Industry
  • 3. Video on Demand: Geoblocking, Borders, and Geocultural Anxieties
  • 4. Digital Music: Regional Lockout and Online Listening
  • 5. Region- Free Media: Collecting and Selling Cultural Status
  • Conclusion: The End of Geoblocking? or, Region- Free Media Literacy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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