DIGITAL INTERMEDIARIES AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: THE DEVELOPING INFLUENCE OF DISTRIBUTION PLATFORMS
DIGITAL INTERMEDIARIES AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES: THE DEVELOPING INFLUENCE OF DISTRIBUTION PLATFORMS

Summary/Abstract: The last few years have seen the generalization of a communicative device which is technical and organizational integration of a terminal, an operating system, a network connection, an online platform to access applications (contents and services). Indeed, smartphones, connected TVs, tablet computers and game consoles are structured by this model which develops itself thanks to the rise of computer performance and capacity telecommunication networks. Single technical interface for users, they show, for industrial actors involved, a mode of organization cannot be reduced to a commercial intermediation. So at the heart of this configuration are the "platforms" which are a new form of goods and services distribution and carry out the renewal of uses and related practices and a change in the value chain which are in the depths of effective change, hopes and fears aroused by the devices presented in our contribution.

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