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Category: 26.05 – Special Issue: Streaming Wars

“Streaming Wars and the Future of Video,” It’s Not What You Think…
Siobhan O’Flynn / University of Toronto

March 2, 2020 Siobhan O'Flynn / University of Toronto 3 comments

Siobhan O’Flynn critically analyzes how Netflix and The Walt Disney Company have employed specific strategies for their respective streaming platforms.

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Network(ed) Spectatorship: Nation, Nostalgia, and Broadcast Streaming on CBS All Access
Cara Dickason / Northwestern University

March 2, 2020 Cara Dickason / Northwestern University 45 comments

Cara Dickason uses CBS All Access’ The Good Fight to explore the role of the public interest when a broadcast network migrates to a streaming platform.

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Rethinking the Legacy of MVPDs Through Content Aggregation
Mike Van Esler / University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

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Mike Van Esler considers the role of content aggregators and offers an ecological framework that focuses on the supraplatforms of the streaming media industry.

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Can Television Diversity Overcome the Rise of Algorithmic Recommendations?
Mark D. Pepper / Utah Valley University

March 2, 2020 Mark Pepper / Utah Valley University One comment

Mark D. Pepper ponders the effects of Netflix’s algorithm on categorization, diversity, and truth.

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A Streaming Comes Across the Sky: Peak TV and the Fate of Nostalgia
Siobhan Lyons / Macquarie University

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As audiences become ever more fragmented, Siobhan Lyons looks at the ways communal nostalgia is increasingly giving way to niche nostalgia.

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Confronting the Swarm: Streaming Platform Strategy in an Uncertain Age
Jake Pitre / Concordia University

March 2, 2020 Jake Pitre / Concordia University One comment

Focusing on the Criterion Channel, Jake Pitre interrogates the curatorial strategies of cinephilic streaming platforms.

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“Rainbow Is the New Black”: Netflix’s Queer Marketing Moment
Joseph Harrison / University of Warwick

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Joseph Harrison takes up Netflix’s recent ambiguously political advertising campaign in Italy.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto

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27 Jan

New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
https://www.flowjournal.org/2023/01/overflow-classifying-dahmer/

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21 Jan

Check out this call for papers from our colleagues! 10 days until submissions are due.

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13 Jan

Hey folks! We are officially extending this CFP until Sunday, January 15

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