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I Zoning China i transverses between two mediums - television and online video - and sketches a persistent logic of "cultural zoning" (p. 3) in the establishment of a "dual culture sphere" (p. 2) for media/cultural governance, across modern Chinese history. In 2006, online video sites' advertising revenue were "considerably smaller than those of traditional media (e.g. televisions)" (p. 141) because they were initially considered "poor" by advertisers (p. 142) or too "grassroots" (p. 142). Later in the 2010s, SARFT finally started to respond to the largely unregulated online video content, via a formalized industry-wide self-censorship program "centered on training censors from video companies and required postproduction registration of their programs" (p. 185). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book " Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing," by Matthew David.