The Age of Netflix

Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access

Cory Barker, Myc Wiatrowski (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9747-8 (ISBN)

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Collecting several new essays from scholars around the globe, this collection seeks to participate in the ongoing discourse about Netflix's place in contemporary culture. These contributors explore the intricacies of the enormous effect Netflix has had on how we consume popular media in the everyday world and examines the streaming giant as a disruptor and cultural institution.

In 2016, Netflix--with an already enormous footprint in the United States--expanded its online streaming video service to 130 new countries, adding more than 12 million subscribers in nine months and bringing its total to 87 million. The effectiveness of Netflix's content management lies in its ability to appeal to a vastly disparate global viewership without a unified cache of content. Instead, the company invests in buying or developing myriad programming and uses sophisticated algorithms to "narrowcast" to micro-targeted audience groups.

In this collection of new essays, contributors explore how Netflix has become a cultural institution and transformed the way we consume popular media.

Cory Barker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University. His writing has appeared in Vox, Complex, The A.V. Club, and other publications. He lives in Peoria, Illinois. Myc Wiatrowski is an analyst of business and culture and associate instructor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction (Cory Barker and Myc Wiatrowski)

Part One: Netflix as Disruptor and as Cultural Institution

From Primetime to Anytime: Streaming Video, Temporality and the Future of Communal Television (Justin Grandinetti)

Terms of Excess: Binge-Viewing as Epic-Viewing

in the Netflix Era (Djoymi Baker)

Streaming Culture, the Centrifugal Development of the Internet and Our Precarious Digital Future (Joseph Donica)

Part Two: Netflix as Producer and as Distributor

Doing Time: Queer Temporalities and Orange Is the New Black (Maria San Filippo)

Netflix and Innovation in Arrested Development’s Narrative

Construction (Maíra Bianchini and Maria Carmem Jacob de Souza)

Circulating The Square: Digital Distribution as (Potential)

Activism (James N. Gilmore)

Part Three: Netflix as Narrowcaster and as Global Player

Binge-Watching in Practice: The Rituals, Motives and Feelings

of Streaming Video Viewers (Emil Steiner)

Narrowcasting, Millennials and the Personalization of Genre

in Digital Media (Alison N. Novak)

From Interactive Digital Television to Internet “Instant”

Television: Netflix, Shifts in Power and Emerging Audience Practices from an Evolutionary Perspective (Vivi Theodoropoulou)

Digital Delivery in Mexico: A Global Newcomer Stirs the Local Giants (Elia Margarita Cornelio-Marí)

Selected Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-9747-5 / 0786497475
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-9747-8 / 9780786497478
Zustand	Neuware