- Title
- Binge-watching: Cultural Studies and developing critical literacy in the age of surveillance capitalism
- Creator
- Wight, Linda; Cooper, Simon
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/192468
- Identifier
- vital:18018
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2060190
- Identifier
- ISSN:1030-4312 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- With the rise in the twenty-first century of streaming services such as Netflix, binge-watching has become a significant new mode of media consumption. This article contends that binge-watching, with its extended duration, forms of absorption, attention and surveillance-commodification marks a challenge for teaching the kinds of critical understanding around representation that underpins Cultural Studies. We ask whether binge-watching can be understood through the existing frames of Cultural Studies, or whether the economies of attention, commodification, privatization and surveillance require a different form of critical reflection upon this contemporary practice. We investigate how binge-watching might differ from other forms of cultural consumption and how critical educative practices could interrogate binge-watching, and the streaming services that encourage this practice, as increasingly significant modes of cultural production and consumption. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Continuum Vol. 36, no. 5 (2022), p. 711-722
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Informa UK Limited
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3605 Screen and digital media; 4701 Communication and media studies; 4702 Cultural studies; Binge-watching; Cultural Studies; education; pedagogy; streaming television; surveillance capitalism
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