Planet Digital

Aswin Punathambekar (Editor) Aswin Punathambekar is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC). He has written and co-edited books including From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry, Global Bollywood, Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia, Television at Large in South Asia, and Media Industry Studies (with Amanda Lotz and Daniel Herbert).Adrienne Shaw (Editor) Adrienne Shaw is Associate Professor at Temple University in the Klein College of Media and Communication, and author of Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (2014) and Rainbow Arcade: Over 30 Years of Queer Video Game History (2019). She serves as editor for the NYU Press series Critical Cultural Communication.Jonathan Gray (Editor) Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Dislike-Minded, Show Sold Separately, Planet Digital (with Aswin Punathambekar and Adrienne Shaw), Reading Media (with Daphne Gershon), Fandom, Second Edition (with Cornel Sandvoss and C. Lee Harrington), and Satire TV (with Jeffrey P. Jones and Ethan Thompson).

"Planet Digital is a much-needed and wide-ranging collection of accessible writing, which anchors global phenomena such as podcasting, games, social media and streaming in local content analysis. It is an essential resource to those who research and teach about digital media transformations." – Aniko Imre, University of Southern California "This skilfully curated collection of essays provides a wonderful overview of global digital culture. Planet Digital is a terrific resource for teachers and students, and a pleasurable read for anyone interested in popular culture across the world." - David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds