Debates about the digital media economy are at the heart of media and communication studies. An increasingly digitalised and datafied media environment has implications for every aspect of the field, from ownership and production, to distribution and consumption. The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy   offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries. It provides an overview of the major areas of debate, and conceptual and methodological frameworks, through chapters written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspective. PART 1: Key Concepts PART 2: Methodological Approaches PART 3: Media Industries of the Digital Economy PART 4: Geographies of the Digital Economy PART 5: Law, Governance and Policy Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015) and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), and Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021).  He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020 and is currently an Executive Board member of the ICA. He was elected an ICA Fellow in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2019. He has held visiting professor roles at City University, London and George Washington University, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Communications University of China, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. She is the author of  Empires of Entertainment  (Rutgers, 2011) and  Cloud Policy  (MIT Press, forthcoming), and co-editor of  Distribution Revolution  (University of California Press, 2014);  Connected Viewing: Selling, Streaming & Sharing Media in the Digital Age  (Routledge, 2013); and  Media Industries: History, Theory, Method  (Blackwell, 2009). She is a co-founder of the  Media Industries  journal and a member of the journal’s editorial collective.