The age of Netflix : critical essays on streaming media, digital delivery and instant access / edited by Cory Barker and Myc Wiatrowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Cory, 1988- editor.

Wiatrowski, Myc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Netflix (Firm).

Streaming video--Social aspects.

Streaming video.

Streaming technology (Telecommunications)--Social aspects.

Streaming technology (Telecommunications).

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

vii, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"In 2016, Netflix 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. In this collection of new essays, contributors explore how Netflix has become a cultural institution and transformed the way we consume popular media"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Netflix as Disruptor and as Cultural Institution

From Primetime to Anytime: Streaming Video, Temporality and the Future of Communal Television / Justin Grandinetti Grandinetti, Justin 11

Terms of Excess: Binge-Viewing as Epic-Viewing in the Netflix Era / Dioymi Baker Baker, Dioymi 31

Streaming Culture, the Centrifugal Development of the Internet and Our Precarious Digital Future / Joseph Donica Donica, Joseph 55

Part 2 Netflix as Producer and as Distributor

Doing Time: Queer Temporalities and Orange Is the New Black / Maria San Filippo Filippo, Maria San 75

Netflix and Innovation in Arrested Development's Narrative Construction / Maíra Bianchini Bianchini, Maíra, Maria Carmem Jacob de Souza Souza, Maria Carmem Jacob de 98

Circulating The Square: Digital Distribution as (Potential) Activism / James N. Gilmore Gilmore, James N. 120

Part 3 Netflix as Narrowcaster and as Global Player

Binge-Watching in Practice: The Rituals, Motives and Feelings of Streaming Video Viewers / Emil Steiner Steiner, Emil 141

Narrowcasting, Millennial and the Personalization of Genre in Digital Media / Alison N. Novak Novak, Alison N. 162

From Interactive Digital Television to Internet "Instant" Television: Netflix, Shifts in Power and Emerging Audience Practices from an Evolutionary Perspective / Vivi Theodoropoulou Theodoropoulou, Vivi 182

Digital Delivery in Mexico: A Global Newcomer Stirs the Local Giants / Elia Margarita Cornelio-Marí Cornelio-Marí, Elia Margarita 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786497478

0786497475

OCLC:

982089016