
Abstract
Streaming media platforms have emerged as new and natively digital forms of content delivery for mainstream news and entertainment media over the past decades. Underlying technologies also unfold new possibilities for the circulation artistic/creative digital video works. Yet, such potential remains relatively underexplored, due to the complexities involved in the public distribution of such works. In this study, we analyze these complexities and critically evaluate emerging models, such as open access streaming media platforms, subscription-based platforms, and cryptocurrency and NFT-based platforms that feature new administrative forms and governance strategies. We finally discuss the possible roles of traditional public cultural institutions supporting film/media arts in this new media ecosystem and argue that the pivotal concept should switch to ‘circulation’, rather than ‘distribution’, in the marketing of film/video arts in our digital age.
Date Received
December 29, 2024
Date Revised
December 30, 2024
Date Accepted
December 31, 2024
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Ozgun, Aras and Treske, Andreas
(2024)
"Streaming Media Platforms and Film/Video Arts Distribution,"
Markets, Globalization & Development Review:
Vol. 9:
No.
4, Article 3.
DOI: 10.23860/MGDR-2024-09-04-03
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mgdr/vol9/iss4/3
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Author Bio
Aras Ozgun is a media scholar and artist, teaching at the Media Studies Graduate Program of the New School for Public Engagement, USA. He studied Political Science (B.Sc.) and Sociology (MS) at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, and Media Studies (MA) and Sociology (Ph.D.) at New School for Social Research in New York. He writes on media, culture, and politics, and produces experimental media, photography and video works.
Andreas Treske is an author, and filmmaker living in Turkey. He graduated from the University of Television and Film, Munich, where he also taught film and video post-production. He teaches in the Department of Communication and Design at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. His academic work focuses on visual communication and media production, including new media.