Introduction: the new video geography

This book is about the cultural geography of video streaming. It is about platforms - YouTube, iPlayer, DailyMotion, Netflix, Periscope, Youku - and how they manage their internationalaudiences and shape them into markets. It is about governments, state institutions andpublic-service broadcasters, and the technologies they use to regulate video flows acrossnational borders. It is about users and audiences, and how they negotiate diverse formsof access and restriction. Above all, it is about cultural circulation - how different kinds of content reach dispersed audiences through authorized and unauthorized channels.