Digital Platforms and the Global South

This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. While studying the strategies of some of the main US-based Big Tech platforms or video streaming platforms towards the Global South, the book also consider the often-neglected active role local or regional actors play in the expansion of those Western digital players, and highlight the existence of a constellation of local or regional platforms that have emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East. This volume examines the ways in which the rise of these digital platforms has generated new forms of cultural entrepreneurship and participated in the reconfiguring of the conditions in which cultural contents are produced and circulated in the Global South.