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Digital media ecosystems

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Digital media ecosystems refer to the interconnected networks of digital platforms, technologies, and content that facilitate the creation, distribution, and consumption of media. This field examines the interactions between various stakeholders, including users, creators, and distributors, and how these relationships shape media practices, cultural trends, and economic models in the digital landscape.
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Digital media ecosystems refer to the interconnected networks of digital platforms, technologies, and content that facilitate the creation, distribution, and consumption of media. This field examines the interactions between various stakeholders, including users, creators, and distributors, and how these relationships shape media practices, cultural trends, and economic models in the digital landscape.

Key research themes

1. How do digital platforms emerge and develop into extensive digital media ecosystems?

This research area examines the lifecycle of digital platform ecosystems (DPEs), focusing on their stages of emergence, growth processes, and orchestration. Understanding this evolution is vital as DPEs have become central in shaping digital markets, innovation, and organizational strategies in media industries and beyond.

Key finding: The authors develop a four-stage framework detailing how proprietary digital platforms evolve into expansive digital platform ecosystems through specific key activities at each stage. This process view integrates industrial... Read more
Key finding: This study explains why successful digital platforms grow rapidly to dominate markets, often resulting in monopolistic 'winner-takes-all' scenarios. It attributes such dominance to economies of scale, network effects, and... Read more
Key finding: Offering a sociological perspective, this paper conceptualizes digital platforms as organizational forms characterized by a core-periphery architecture that governs social orders via digital interfaces. It reconciles... Read more
Key finding: Through a systematic literature review, the authors identify the roles of digital intermediaries as key actors disrupting the media production chain. They highlight how these intermediaries contribute to the emergence and... Read more

2. What are the strategic business models and innovations shaping digital media ecosystems?

This theme explores how digital media firms adapt and innovate their business models in response to disruptive technologies and changing consumer behaviors. It is critical to unveil dynamic strategies in the digital media ecosystem, including revenue diversification, platform-based models, and audience engagement mechanisms, informing scholars and practitioners about sustainable digital media management.

Key finding: By analyzing three MMORPG case studies, this paper identifies a dynamic paradigm of online media business models based on a trade-off between maximizing value per user and expanding the user base. It underscores the video... Read more
Key finding: This study presents an innovative two-sided revenue model where journalistic content generates digital traffic leveraged to promote in-house commercial digital services, contrasting traditional external advertising models.... Read more
Key finding: The paper identifies six paradigm shifts—value, technology, customer, competence, revenue, and operation—that media firms must address to innovate dynamic business models. It conceptualizes media business models beyond static... Read more
Key finding: Comparing Netflix and Tencent Video, the study reveals how diverse streaming business models (SVOD, AVOD, and mixed funding) evolve by leveraging user-generated data and adaptive recommendation algorithms to optimize... Read more

3. How do technological infrastructures and power relations influence digital media ecosystems?

This thematic area focuses on the critical role of digital infrastructures—including platforms, networks, and their sociotechnical arrangements—and their embedded power relations. It examines how infrastructure design, ownership, and policies affect media distribution, cultural flows, market competition, and regulatory landscapes, essential for understanding the structural dynamics and inequalities within digital media ecosystems.

Key finding: The author introduces the 'streaming network' model, depicting streaming services as complex digital media distribution networks characterized by flows of content, data, and money, and governed by power relations among human... Read more
Key finding: This multidisciplinary analysis addresses the convergent social, political, cultural, and competition challenges of regulating dominant digital platforms and SVOD services. It argues for integrated regulatory frameworks that... Read more
Key finding: Focusing on smaller and peripheral media markets, this book argues that despite digital globalization, national borders and local scale remain substantially influential in media circulation. It highlights how digital media... Read more

All papers in Digital media ecosystems

Este trabalho tem como objeto os denominados influenciadores digitais, que produzem conteúdo e se relacionam com seus públicos por meio de diversas plataformas de mídia social (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat). O objetivo... more
Introduction. The media ecosystem is governed by a new economy where traditional media are losing their hegemonic position to technologic companies. Despite the growing presence of these companies in media products and services, there are... more
Abstract: The pandemic and lockdown forced the media and its agents to transform and think differently. The situation brought with it the reinvention of productive routines and revitalized the information consumption agenda of audiences... more
Resumo O trabalho conduz uma reflexão teórica de caráter epistemológico sobre a midiatização, proposta como matriz conceitual para os estudos dos meios de comunicação que integram o ecossistema midiático contemporâneo. Na primeira seção,... more
Desde que aparece la televisión, la muerte de la radio se anuncia como cercana. A pesar de todas las amenazas, el medio continúa vivo e, incluso, gana nuevos públicos en un escenario hostil para un medio centenario. La realidad muestra... more
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