Hey AoIR people! I invite you to explore *Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader*, a new volume co-edited by the brilliant Adrienne Shaw, Aswin Punathambekar, and Jonathan Gray that brings together 29 chapters from scholars across the globe challenging the myth of the "global village. Each chapter opens a window into how regional histories, infrastructures, economies, and power relations shape the uneven landscapes of our digital world, and together they form a field-defining anthology examining the texts, genres, platforms, and industries that make up contemporary digital culture. From influencer cultures, streaming platforms, esports, and TikTok to Squid Game, K-Pop, Queer spaces, Marvel, Bluey, and Nollywood, the collection offers a rich set of case studies illuminating how digital media both reflect and remake cultural life across different parts of the world. This book can also be a fantastic teaching resource, with each chapter unpacking a major digital phenomenon in an accessible and engaging way while introducing students to the infrastructural, cultural, political, and economic dynamics that shape it. Whether you're teaching digital culture, media industries, platform studies, or global media, there's plenty here to spark students' critical thinking and deepen their understanding of the forces shaping our digital world! Table of contents: 1) *Introduction: Towards a Global and Planetary Understanding of Digital Cultures *| Adrienne Shaw, Aswin Punathambekar, and Jonathan Gray 2) *Afrobeats: Informality, Piracy, and Extraction *| Olufunmilayo B. Arewa and Ayodeji O. Fakolade 3) *Anime: A History of a Global, Digital Form* | Marc Steinberg 4) *Bluey: Cultural Policy and Children’s Television* | Anna Potter 5) *Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte: Race and Ambivalence in Global Streaming Media* | Laura Guimarães Corrêa & Francisco Leite 6) *Carnival Row: Mobile Production and the New Geography of the Streaming Economy* | Petr Szczepanik 7) *Cricket: A Tale of Empire and Media Technology *| Douglas-Wade Brunton 8) *Data Centers: The Environmental Costs of Global Digital Media *| Lauren Bridges 9) *FIFA+: Global Sports and the Battle for Control* | Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes 10) *Instagram: Bollywood Stars and Celebrity Culture* | Sreya Mitra 11) *K-pop: Affective Ownership and Digital Fandom* | Benjamin M. Han 12) *LEGO: Digital Play in a Material World* | Derek Johnson 13) *Marvel: Global Theatrical Movies and Multinational Capitalism* | Shawna Kidman 14) *Mukbang and Chibo: Creator Cultures and Platform Governance *| Jian Lin & David Craig 15) *Netflix: The Uneven Globalization of a Video Platform* | Ramon Lobato 16) *Nollywood: Streaming and “New Wave” Filmmaking *| Godwin Iretomiwa Simon 17) *Phishing: Trust in Global Digital Networks* | Nishant Shah 18) *Podcasting: True Crime, Pop Culture, and Intimate Listening Publics* | Usha Raman 19) *Poder Prieto: Media, Colorism, and Cultural Activism* | Juan Llamas-Rodriguez and Silvia Téliz 20) *Queer Eye: Understanding the Transnational Spread of LGBTQ+ Television *| Katherine Sender 21) *Social Media Challenges: From Playful Imitation to Sociopolitical Powe*r | Tom Divon and Jessica Maddox 22) *Spotify: Getting Played in the Age of Digital Platforms* | Jeremy Morris 23) *Squid Game: Korean Thriller, but Global Survival Genre* | Dal Yong Jin 24) *Steam: Skin Trading and Global Market Infrastructures *| Anne Mette Thorhauge, Daniel Nielsen, Kasper Sandbergh Stouge, Christopher Holmbjerg Jensen, Kasper Just Mathiesen, and Leon Xiao 25) *Turkish Television Dramas: Production Labor and Precarity in Global TV Industries* | Ergin Bulut 26) *Twitch: From Esports Players to Creator Cultures* | Mark R. Johnson 27) *We Are Lady Parts: Diasporic Culture and Digital Public Service Media* | Anamik Saha 28) *WhatsApp: Indigenous Storytelling Through Digital Media* | Rashmi Kumari 29) *YouTube: From Legacy Media to Creator Genres* | Heather Jaber 30% discount code: PLDIG30 Order here: https://nyupress.org/9781479835164/planet-digital/ -- *Tom Divon* Creators & Platforms R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> Website: https://tomdivon.com/ Co-Founder: The Content Creator Scholars Network <https://www.ccsn.site/> *Publications*:

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Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607> #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok> Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 Seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-learn-about-the-holocaust-in-60-seconds-on-tiktok/> Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241269281> Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/29768624241303109> The unsolicited algorithm: unveiling gendered harms and (non)consent in apple iOS features <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2024.2433683?src=> The sound of disinformation: TikTok, computational propaganda, and the invasion of Ukraine <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241251804?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1> Youthful Platform Commemoration: TikTok as a Frontier for Holocaust Education and Memory <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383957738_Youthful_Platform_Commemoration_TikTok_as_a_Frontier_for_Holocaust_Education_and_Memory>