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Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2016), 203 pp.

Series: Theory on Demand, 18

ISBN 978-94-92302-03-8

CC BY-NC-SA

Introduction: The New Video Geography / Ramon Lobato, 10
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON GEOBLOCKING, 25
Tunneling Media: Geoblocking and Online Border Resistance / Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, 32
The Logics and Territorialities of Geoblocking / Cameran Ashraf and Luis Felipe Alvarez León, 42
Geoblocking, Technical Standards and the Law / Marketa Trimble, 54
Periscope, Live-Streaming and Mobile Video Culture / Adam Rugg and Benjamin Burroughs, 64
Circumvention, Media Sport and The Fragmentation of Video Culture / James Meese and Aneta Podkalicka, 74
Live Sports, Piracy and Uncertainty: Understanding Illegal Streaming Aggregation Platforms / Florian Hoof, 86
The Future in a Vault of Plastic: Physical Geolocking in the Era of the 16-bit Video Game Cartridge, 1988-1993 / Roland Burke, 94
PART II: CIRCUMVENTION CASE STUDIES, 107
China: The Techno-Politics of the Wall / Jinying Li, 110
Australia: Circumvention Goes Mainstream / Ramon Lobato and James Meese, 120
Turkey: Coping With Internet Censorship / Çigdem Bozdag, 130
Sweden: Circumvention and the Quest for Privacy / Chris Baumann, 140
Malaysia: Global Binge-Viewing in a Restrictive State / Sandra Hanchard, 150
Brazil: Netflix, VPNs and the ‘Paying’ Pirates / Vanessa Mendes Moreira de Sa, 158
Iran: A Friction between State Ideology and Network Society / Hadi Sohrabi and Behzad Dowran, 168
Cuba: Videos to the left – Circumvention Practices and Audiovisual Ecologies / Fidel A. Rodriguez, 178
The USA: Geoblocking in a Privileged Market / Evan Elkins, 190