Streaming Production Cultures Special issue of Television & New Media

Category: Publication
Keywords: platformisation, production cultures, streaming, digital transformation

Over the past two decades, major tech companies like Netflix and Amazon have become central players in the screen industries. Meanwhile, legacy television and film companies have become more digital and data-driven. Although the effects of this digital transformation on distribution, consumption, and economics of audiovisual content have been well documented, knowledge of its impacts on production remains limited and challenging to assess. This is where this special issue intervenes with a series of distinct but interconnected production studies. This special issue brings research on “production cultures” (Caldwell 2008) into an urgently needed dialogue. It explores the practices and beliefs of above- and below-the-line workers who create audiovisual content for streamers and/or online platforms. Crucially, the special issue aims to broaden a conversation which has primarily been dominated by US-based services (Netflix in particular) and English-language markets. This special issue encourages proposals that also consider other major streaming services, online video platforms, and local/regional streamers. By focusing on a range of geographic contexts, this special issue aims to shed much needed light on the broad spectrum of production experiences in the online screen industries. We invite production studies that offer both empirical and methodological findings. Our goal is to provide a kaleidoscope of research on different production cultures in order to significantly advance this critical field of research.

Initiator(s):
Special issue of Television & New Media

Deadline: 28.06.2024
Publication-Type: Article

https://ecrea.eu/page-18206/13367192

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