ABSTRACT
Reflecting on the centrality that the notion of diversity has acquired in recent decades in relation to audiovisual industries, especially in terms of economics and policies and in the digital environment, generates such a myriad of questions that any attempt at concluding remarks is discouraging at the first sight. Nevertheless, it is possible to summarize key trends as well as to discuss practical proposals to improve the diversity of/in audiovisual industries. To do so, the chapter revolves around some of the topics specially dealt with in the volume, with the aim of advancing the discussion regarding the relations between diversity, audiovisual industries and digitization: new transnational players such as audiovisual online platforms, international governance efforts led by the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and its adaptation to the digital era, and national responses in which the diversity principle plays a role, usually to be disentangled.
