cultural policies; cultural industries; culture; global pandemic; online platforms; global platforms; Netflix; Amazon; media regulation; media law; media policy
Abstract :
[en] The article proposes to consider the COVID-19 global pandemic as new major development for cultural industries and policies and to highlight timely and crucial trends due to the lockdown measures. Thus, it attempts to stimulate the scholarship debate regarding the consequences of the pandemic to the action of global online platforms, as well as to policy and economic aspects of cultural sectors. Taking as case study the audio-visual sector, the article explores whether the US global streaming platforms are the winning players of the lockdown measures and emphasizes the multifaceted strategies developed by US-based platforms in order to strengthen their soft power. Focusing on China and the European Union, the article also argues that the overwhelming action of US-based online platforms triggers the potential emergence of media platform regionalization in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, it highlights the regulatory challenges and how the new empirical trends are expected to shape the current audio-visual policy framework. The analysis focuses on the period between the beginning of global pandemic in Asia-Pacific in January 2020 and the progressive easing of lockdown measures in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific in July 2020.
Disciplines :
Political science, public administration & international relations
Author, co-author :
Vlassis, Antonios ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de science politique > Département de science politique
Language :
English
Title :
Global online platforms, COVID-19, and culture: The global pandemic, an accelerator towards which direction?
Publication date :
July 2021
Journal title :
Media, Culture and Society
ISSN :
0163-4437
eISSN :
1460-3675
Publisher :
SAGE Publications, New York, United States - New York
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