Book chapter
Binge new world: Streaming television narratives and the interpellated subject
Television's Streaming Wars, pp 173-187
2024
Abstract
This chapter is an exploration of the relationship between streaming television and contemporary subjects. Engagement with media texts offers a particular view of the social world and our place as subjects in it. In the flow of images on streaming television, there exists a dialectical tension between media producers' desire for profit and control and consumers, who may critically reframe the images. Important in this moment of mobile digital media are notions like social control, agency, and liberation. In what ways do viewers possess agency over narratives and messages on streaming television? Does streaming media create potential for liberation and a virtual space to develop a critical consciousness? Or is streaming television, as some fear, leading us further into the role of passive acceptance that we've been hailed to play? This chapter explicates multiple perspectives on subjection to consider the impact of streaming television on contemporary media subjects. It then contrasts traditional views of media dominance with the critical tradition, where actors have agency in the ways they consume and reinterpret media products. The chapter concludes by attempting to reconcile the conflicting views of television media.
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Details
- Title
- Binge new world
- Creators
- Nick CoffmanWesley Shumar
- Contributors
- Arienne Ferchaud (Editor)Jennifer M. Proffitt (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Television's Streaming Wars, pp 173-187
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85174217783
- Other Identifier
- 991021863967204721