This article explores how the political economy of the cultural industries changes through
platformization: the penetration of economic and infrastructural extensions of online …

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of
audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been …

Despite extensive literature on content creators' identities, strategies, and activities, there
remains a gap in understanding how the constantly changing platform environment impacts …

Great controversy has surrounded the growth of the music streaming services that are now
central to the music industries internationally. One important set of criticisms concerns the …

Where does the “power” of platformization reside? As is widely recognized, platforms are
matchmakers which interface between different markets or “sides.” This article analyzes …

In music streaming services like Spotify, discrete pieces of music no longer has a price, as
has traditionally been the case in music retailing, both analog and digital. This article …

Hesmondhalgh has done it again! The third edition of The Cultural Industries is a tour-de-
force. At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big …

The hidden material histories of music. Music is seen as the most immaterial of the arts, and
recorded music as a progress of dematerialization—an evolution from physical discs to …

We live in a world where the internet and the world wide web have, in the matter of only
three decades, shifted from being at the forefront of a new frontier of communication …

This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using
the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural …