Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved.

It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers – including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists – who each explore these issues through an insightful case study at a local, national, regional or international scale. While studying the strategies of some of the main US-based Big Tech platforms or vi...