A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Swapnil Rai explores how streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon shape diplomacy, narratives, and policy, positioning themselves as cultural power brokers beyond national borders in an era of digital media dominance.
Read moreRahul Mukherjee reviews some recent trends in media distribution studies.
Read moreTaylor Annabell examines how the platform BeReal encourages visibility through smiling selfies. Annabell argues this directive of happiness reveals how the construction of authenticity has particular implications for young women.
Read moreEmily West details the shift towards the consumption of media-as-a-service and its implications for audience subjectivity in the streaming era.
Read moreKatie Hoovestol examines Netflix’s branded YouTube account Still Watching Netflix as an extension of Netflix’s cross-platform ecosystem.
Read moreAndres Lombana-Bermudez reflects on how Colombian public school systems utilized Information Communication Technologies (ICT) throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreUsing new media cooperative Defector as a case study, Austin Morris explores the ethics of online content production and what it means to do “good work” in the digital content industries.
Read moreSamantha Close brings attention to the key points of FLOW 2018’s “The Political Economy of Digital Platforms” roundtable.
Read moreAs television audiences become fragmented, questions regarding distribution of content are legion.
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