Abstract
Emerging digital entertainment media in the Global South are anchored in nation-state configurations, benefit from supranational affordances, and aspire to global operations. Drawing on Sassen’s “third spaces,” the article focuses on the case of Shahid, a Middle East-based video streaming platform and a hybrid media venture that operates at the intersection of the local and the global. The article suggests digital media entertainment territoriality is such that content services simultaneously inhabit geographic nation-state borders and transversally closed bordered spaces, and point to potential reconfigurations of power dynamics with such ventures functioning as spaces for negotiating cultural politics in the region.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 167-183 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Television and New Media |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2022 |
Keywords
- Middle East/Arab world
- globalization
- media infrastructure
- piracy
- political economy
- streaming
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts