Andrew deWaard
@adewaard.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
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"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
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@adewaard.bsky.social
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DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
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"This is the “Hungarian model” on speed.Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s authoritarian leader, spent a decade asserting increasing control over that nation’s media.
The Trump administration is poised to accomplish the same in less than a year – and at greater scale."
theconversation.com/a-paramount-...
The Trump administration is poised to accomplish the same in less than a year – and at greater scale."
theconversation.com/a-paramount-...
A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream
The proposed Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger would concentrate oversight of two prominent newsrooms – CNN and CBS – under one owner with strong ties to Donald Trump.
theconversation.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"This is the “Hungarian model” on speed.Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s authoritarian leader, spent a decade asserting increasing control over that nation’s media.
The Trump administration is poised to accomplish the same in less than a year – and at greater scale."
theconversation.com/a-paramount-...
The Trump administration is poised to accomplish the same in less than a year – and at greater scale."
theconversation.com/a-paramount-...
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💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
August 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
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💡 Author @adewaard.bsky.social joins We Disrupt This Broadcast to explore why disrupting the financialization of media is essential for empowering creative workers. 💥
💬 How do you think capitalism shapes the art and media we consume? Share your thoughts: open.spotify.com/episode/4G0b...
💬 How do you think capitalism shapes the art and media we consume? Share your thoughts: open.spotify.com/episode/4G0b...
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
💡 Author @adewaard.bsky.social joins We Disrupt This Broadcast to explore why disrupting the financialization of media is essential for empowering creative workers. 💥
💬 How do you think capitalism shapes the art and media we consume? Share your thoughts: open.spotify.com/episode/4G0b...
💬 How do you think capitalism shapes the art and media we consume? Share your thoughts: open.spotify.com/episode/4G0b...
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💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
August 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
💬 How do you think art can reveal the absurdities of everyday systems? Thankfully on 'We Disrupt This Broadcast,' we have Julio Torres to share his insights, along with @adewaard.bsky.social to contextualize the cultural cost of art.
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
Full podcast episode out now! peabodyawards.com/stories/podc...
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Plus, joining us is @adewaard.bsky.social, author of 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture,' who will dive into the cultural costs and implications of "financialization."
Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking conversation and follow our podcast!
➡️ peabodyawards.com/podcast
Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking conversation and follow our podcast!
➡️ peabodyawards.com/podcast
We Disrupt This Broadcast - The Peabody Awards
Drawing from the interviews conducted during the Peabody Awards ceremony, special events, and other conversations with honorees, “Stories that Matter: The Peabody Awards Podcast” is a series created a...
peabodyawards.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Plus, joining us is @adewaard.bsky.social, author of 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture,' who will dive into the cultural costs and implications of "financialization."
Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking conversation and follow our podcast!
➡️ peabodyawards.com/podcast
Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking conversation and follow our podcast!
➡️ peabodyawards.com/podcast
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🚨 TOMORROW –– #newepisodealert🚨
Get ready for an exciting new podcast episode of #WeDisruptThisBroadcast! We’re thrilled to welcome the brilliantly creative Julio Torres as our featured guest. 🙌
#Fantasmas #PeabodyWinner #StoriesThatMatter 👇
Get ready for an exciting new podcast episode of #WeDisruptThisBroadcast! We’re thrilled to welcome the brilliantly creative Julio Torres as our featured guest. 🙌
#Fantasmas #PeabodyWinner #StoriesThatMatter 👇
August 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🚨 TOMORROW –– #newepisodealert🚨
Get ready for an exciting new podcast episode of #WeDisruptThisBroadcast! We’re thrilled to welcome the brilliantly creative Julio Torres as our featured guest. 🙌
#Fantasmas #PeabodyWinner #StoriesThatMatter 👇
Get ready for an exciting new podcast episode of #WeDisruptThisBroadcast! We’re thrilled to welcome the brilliantly creative Julio Torres as our featured guest. 🙌
#Fantasmas #PeabodyWinner #StoriesThatMatter 👇
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Diving back into media industries work this month and I’m absolutely blown away by @adewaard.bsky.social’s Derivative Media (2024).
His 2020 piece has been on my mind for years and the book is bigger, better and bolder.
If you’re a media industries, cultural studies or coms reader, check it out!
His 2020 piece has been on my mind for years and the book is bigger, better and bolder.
If you’re a media industries, cultural studies or coms reader, check it out!
DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
August 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Diving back into media industries work this month and I’m absolutely blown away by @adewaard.bsky.social’s Derivative Media (2024).
His 2020 piece has been on my mind for years and the book is bigger, better and bolder.
If you’re a media industries, cultural studies or coms reader, check it out!
His 2020 piece has been on my mind for years and the book is bigger, better and bolder.
If you’re a media industries, cultural studies or coms reader, check it out!
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I recently spoke about Music In Orbit with @corybarker.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast. We talked about the turn to subscription listening, Liberty Media's growing power in the media industries, and music programming in the streaming era. Listen here
newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit
newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit
Brian Fauteux, "Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age" (Univ of California Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I recently spoke about Music In Orbit with @corybarker.bsky.social for the New Books Network podcast. We talked about the turn to subscription listening, Liberty Media's growing power in the media industries, and music programming in the streaming era. Listen here
newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit
newbooksnetwork.com/music-in-orbit
this is happening in a few hours!
I’m very excited to give a book talk for Derivative Media at San Diego Central Library on May 6 at 6:30pm. Registration encouraged. Refreshments served!
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
May 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
this is happening in a few hours!
Thanks to @carlzoilus.bsky.social @eweisbard.bsky.social @alyxvesey.bsky.social & @erazlogo.bsky.social for this great chat with me, @lizpelly.bsky.social & @brianfauteux.bsky.social
-- video now available:
youtu.be/9_Q68lIQ00k?...
-- video now available:
youtu.be/9_Q68lIQ00k?...
April 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thanks to @carlzoilus.bsky.social @eweisbard.bsky.social @alyxvesey.bsky.social & @erazlogo.bsky.social for this great chat with me, @lizpelly.bsky.social & @brianfauteux.bsky.social
-- video now available:
youtu.be/9_Q68lIQ00k?...
-- video now available:
youtu.be/9_Q68lIQ00k?...
I’m very excited to give a book talk for Derivative Media at San Diego Central Library on May 6 at 6:30pm. Registration encouraged. Refreshments served!
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
April 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I’m very excited to give a book talk for Derivative Media at San Diego Central Library on May 6 at 6:30pm. Registration encouraged. Refreshments served!
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
sandiego.librarymarket.com/event/deriva...
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Last week, @adewaard.bsky.social visited the Department of Music at the University of Alberta to talk about his new book, Derivative Media, for the Questions About Music colloquium series. The conversation can still be watched here: www.youtube.com/live/gFwh9Nz...
How Wall Street Devours Music | Andrew deWaard
YouTube video by Questions About Music at the University of Alberta
www.youtube.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Last week, @adewaard.bsky.social visited the Department of Music at the University of Alberta to talk about his new book, Derivative Media, for the Questions About Music colloquium series. The conversation can still be watched here: www.youtube.com/live/gFwh9Nz...
Thanks Dan! 🙏
I’m currently reading @adewaard.bsky.social’s brilliant book DERIVATIVE MEDIA and even to me as a media studies guy focused on political economy, it’s genuinely unsettling to read how far the financialization of our world has already gone, and how devastating it is to the creative industries.
Bring out the meme
April 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks Dan! 🙏
extremely excited for this event with @annakornbluh.bsky.social in chicago. maybe some folks from #SCMS will still be in town?
chicago! how do Hollywood's financial instruments shape its aesthetic output? join InterCcECT monday 7 april for a session on the fab new book Derivative Media, with special guest Professor Andrew deWaard!
interccect.com/2025/03/22/a...
interccect.com/2025/03/22/a...
asset managerial aesthetics
How do the financial instruments deployed in Hollywood shape its aesthetic output? A new book tracking the financialization of culture industries offers a comprehensive theory of the derivative for…
interccect.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
extremely excited for this event with @annakornbluh.bsky.social in chicago. maybe some folks from #SCMS will still be in town?
I had a great chat with Liz and Brian about the music industry, check out the video here. Thanks PMBIP!
In case you missed it, here’s the latest PMBIP. @adewaard.bsky.social @brianfauteux.bsky.social and @lizpelly.bsky.social get into satellite radio, Spotify, and derivative media. I particularly appreciate Andrew's appeal for regulation at the end. Check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Q6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Q6...
Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux on the streaming music industries, PMBiP, 3/18/2025
YouTube video by Eric Weisbard
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I had a great chat with Liz and Brian about the music industry, check out the video here. Thanks PMBIP!
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The Popular Music Books series returns today (Tues), 5 pm ET, w/ a round on 21st-c music economics: Liz Pelly's streaming crit Mood Machine; Andrew deWaard's finance salvo Derivative Media; & Brian Fauteux's satellite investigation, Music in Orbit. To join: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
March 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Popular Music Books series returns today (Tues), 5 pm ET, w/ a round on 21st-c music economics: Liz Pelly's streaming crit Mood Machine; Andrew deWaard's finance salvo Derivative Media; & Brian Fauteux's satellite investigation, Music in Orbit. To join: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
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Popular Music Books in Process Series / Tues March 18 5pm ET / Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux
"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"
To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"
To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
March 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Popular Music Books in Process Series / Tues March 18 5pm ET / Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux
"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"
To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"
To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
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MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social.
Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30
www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
@ucpress.bsky.social.
Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30
www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
March 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social.
Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30
www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
@ucpress.bsky.social.
Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30
www.ucpress.edu/books/music-...
honoured to have my book reviewed alongside the excellent "Immediacy" by @annakornbluh.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social. thank you @ryanboyd.bsky.social
New at PB, @ryanboyd.bsky.social reviews @adewaard.bsky.social's “Derivative Media” (@ucpress.bsky.social) & Anna Kornbluh’s “Immediacy” (@versobooks.bsky.social), which interrogate the decay of narrative art, namely their general turn toward a slop of sequels, prequels, & reboots.
Money for Nothing: Finance and the End of Culture
Art continues to get made—that’s what human beings do—but capital devours it.
buff.ly
February 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
honoured to have my book reviewed alongside the excellent "Immediacy" by @annakornbluh.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social. thank you @ryanboyd.bsky.social
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I'm quoted in this (very thorough!) article on Canadian content and streaming platforms, arguing that major streaming companies should absolutely pay into Canadian content development and that the ad campaigns by the Digital Media Association are incredibly misleading.
Major Music Streaming Companies Push Back Against Canadian Content Payments: Inside Canada's 'Streaming Tax' Battle
Spotify, Apple, Amazon and others are challenging the CRTC's mandated fee payments to Canadian content funds like FACTOR and the Indigenous Music Office, both in courts and in the court of public opin...
ca.billboard.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm quoted in this (very thorough!) article on Canadian content and streaming platforms, arguing that major streaming companies should absolutely pay into Canadian content development and that the ad campaigns by the Digital Media Association are incredibly misleading.
Thank you to @deanvannguyen.bsky.social for this generous review of Derivative Media in Jacobin!
Read it here: jacobin.com/2024/12/capi...
Read it here: jacobin.com/2024/12/capi...
January 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thank you to @deanvannguyen.bsky.social for this generous review of Derivative Media in Jacobin!
Read it here: jacobin.com/2024/12/capi...
Read it here: jacobin.com/2024/12/capi...
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I'm very excited to share that my department at USC is hosting a new conference this summer - The Hollywood Conference! Please spread the word and come join us in LA (the obviously spot for this) next July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp
CFP — The Hollywood Conference
www.thehollywoodconference.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
I'm very excited to share that my department at USC is hosting a new conference this summer - The Hollywood Conference! Please spread the word and come join us in LA (the obviously spot for this) next July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp
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Really terrific @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Andrew deWaard about financialisation of contemporary media, based on his excellent @ucpress.bsky.social volume, 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture', which is open access - link in reply
newbooksnetwork.com/derivative-m...
newbooksnetwork.com/derivative-m...
Andrew deWaard is Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture at the University of California, San Diego, and coauthor of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape.
newbooksnetwork.com
October 28, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Really terrific @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with Andrew deWaard about financialisation of contemporary media, based on his excellent @ucpress.bsky.social volume, 'Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture', which is open access - link in reply
newbooksnetwork.com/derivative-m...
newbooksnetwork.com/derivative-m...
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mind-blowing book, IMMEDIACY but better cuz more big data and ethnography of culture industry financiers www.ucpress.edu/books/deriva...
Derivative Media by Andrew deWaard - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
October 8, 2024 at 4:44 PM
mind-blowing book, IMMEDIACY but better cuz more big data and ethnography of culture industry financiers www.ucpress.edu/books/deriva...
DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
September 3, 2024 at 8:11 PM
DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...
@ucpress.bsky.social ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
www.ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media
bookshop.org/p/books/deri...