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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Understanding Internet-Distributed Television
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 of 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 Wars
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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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