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Book SynopsisNetflix's meteoric rise as an online content provider has been well documented and much debated in the popular press and in academic circles as an industry disrupter, while also blamed for ending TV's Golden Age. For academic researchers, Netflix exists at the nexus of multiple fields: internet research, information studies, media studies, and television and has an impact on the creation of culture and how individuals relate to the media they consume. Netflix at the Nexus examines Netflix's broad impact on technology and television from multiple perspectives, including the interface, the content, and user experiences. Chapters by leading international scholars in television and internet studies provide a transnational perspective on Netflix's changing role in the media landscape. As a whole, this collection provides a comprehensive consideration of the impact of streaming television.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables – Acknowledgments – Amber M. Buck/Theo Plothe: Introduction: Netflix at the Nexus – Jana Zündel: TV IV’s New Audience: Netflix’s Business Model and Model Spectators – Annette Markham/Simona Stavrova/Max Schlüter: Netflix, Imagined Affordances, and the Illusion of Control – Luis F. Alvarez León: The Emergence of Netflix and the New Digital Economic Geography of Hollywood – Gabriele Prosperi: Lovemarked Distribution and Consumers’ Behavior: Netflix Communities Versus Piracy Users’ Conduct – Ana Cabral Martins: Netflix and TV-as-Film: A Case Study of Stranger Things and The OA – Jessica Ford: At the Fringes of TV: Liminality and Privilege in Netflix’s Original Scripted Dramedy Series – Jason A. Smith/Briana L. Pocratsky/Marissa Kiss/Christian Rafael Suero: Programming Gendered Content: Industry, Post-feminism, and Netflix’s Serialized Exposition of Jessica Jones – Kimberly Fain: Netflix: Culturally Transformative and Equally Accessible – Oranit Klein Shagrir: From ViKi to Netflix: Crossing Borders and Meshing Cultures – Sheri Chinen Biesen: Transforming Media Production in an Era of "Binge-Watching": Netflix’s Cinematic Long-Form Serial Programming and Reception – Fabio Giglietto/Chiara Checcaglini/Giada Marino/Lella Mazzoli: Binge-Watching the Algorithmic Catalog: Making Sense of Netflix in the Aftermath of the Italian Launch – Daniela Varela Martínez/Anne Kaun: The Netflix Experience: A User-focused Approach to the Netflix Recommendation Algorithm – Theo Plothe/Amber M. Buck: Do Spoilers Matter?: Asynchronous Viewing Habits on Netflix and Twitter – Vanessa Amália D. Valiati: "Are You Still Watching?": Audiovisual Consumption on Digital Platforms and Practices Related to the Routines of Netflix Users – Contributors.
