Digitality and Debordered Spaces in the Era of Streaming: A Global South Perspective

Khalil, J.; Zayani, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-ccya-km10

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Digitality and Debordered Spaces in the Era of Streaming: A Global South Perspective

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Emerging digital entertainment media in the Global South are anchored in nation-state configurations, benefit from supranational affordances, and aspire to global operations. Drawing on Sassen’s “third spaces,” the article focuses on the case of Shahid, a Middle East-based video streaming platform and a hybrid media venture that operates at the intersection of the local and the global. The article suggests digital media entertainment territoriality is such that content services simultaneously inhabit geographic nation-state borders and transversally closed bordered spaces, and point to potential reconfigurations of power dynamics with such ventures functioning as spaces for negotiating cultural politics in the region.

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