Streaming Culture

David Arditi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

• Chapter 1.Introduction: Caught in the Stream Chapter 2.Digital Retail: Disruption, Distribution, and Disintermediation Chapter 3.Streaming Music: Unending Consumption Begins Chapter 4.Streaming Film: Simultaneous Release, Circumventing Censorship, and Indies Chapter 5.Streaming TV: The Golden Age of TV and Flow Interrupted Chapter 6.Streaming Video Games: Never Own a Game Again Chapter 7.New Cultural Forms: Dominant, Residual, and Emergent Chapter 8.Conclusion

'From music to TV to video games, streaming has altered the way that we consume and experience popular culture and goods. In this engaging, highly readable account, David Arditi explains how streaming came to disrupt so many industries and ways of life, exploring its capitalist roots, tendencies, and impacts. Loaded with examples that will speak to every audience,  Arditi has produced a text that is astonishing in its depth and breadth and is essential for understanding a modern digital society.'