In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children’s and teens’ identities. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, material, affective, and embodied worlds. By analyzing how Netflix represents gender, race, and ethnicities, Gibbons Pyles explores how this new media phenomenon portrays and influences young people’s development and sense of self, and how streaming media pushes children and teens to particular ways of being in its interfaces, algorithms, and content. Drawing primarily on Bakhtinian, feminist, and female Black scholarship, her incisive analysis reveals how the new media streaming phenomenon molds children’s understandings of their ways of being in the world. Ideal for scholars and graduate students in literacy education, media studies, and communication, the text is an illuminating view into the hidden role of streaming services as an essential, complex component of literacy scholarship.
Author(s): Damiana Gibbons Pyles
Series: Expanding Literacies in Education
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 141
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Introduction
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
Chapter 1: Children Go Streaming
Television Goes Streaming
Why Streaming Media Matters
Streaming Media as a Literacy Practice
Streaming Media Shapes Interaction
Streaming Media Shapes Identities
Streaming Media Plays with Time
Streaming Media Situate Identities Through Everydayness and Repetition
Streaming Media as a Heteroglossic, Choronotopic, and Feminist Space
An Overview of Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix
Summing Up
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Streaming Media, Streaming Time: How Netflix’s Children’s Programming Changes How Time Works
Theoretical Background
Chronotopic Time on Netflix Children’s Programming
Narrative, Time, and Netflix Children’s Programming
Time on Repeat
Spanning Time
Reflections and Connections
Summing Up
Notes
References
Chapter 3: Visible Interface, Invisible Algorithms: Children Enter into Netflix’s Algorithmic Space
Netflix’s Visible Space
Netflix’s Multimodal Space(s)
Netflix’s Movable Space(s)
Netflix’s Accessible Space(s)
Netflix’s Invisible Space
Glimpsing Netflix’s Algorithmic Spaces
Reflections and Connections
Summing Up
Note
References
Chapter 4: Interactive Dialogic Play: Interactive Streaming Media on Netflix
Background
Interactive Dialogic Play in Netflix’s Interactive Shows
Constrained Choices
Multimodal Immersiveness
Heteroglossic Narrative and Identities
Transgressive Possibilities
Reflections and Connections
Summing Up
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Girls Are Snapping: Feminism in Netflix’s Youth Programming
Background
The Oppositional Gaze
Feminist Snap
Mothers Showing Different Paths
Technologies and Teen Feminism in Netflix Originals
Reflections and Connections
Summing Up
Notes
References
Chapter 6: What Is Blackness?: Netflix’s Representation of African-American Youth
Background
Blackness as Part of the Story
Blackness as Central to the Story
Blackness as Fluid and Hybrid
Raising Dion
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Reflections and Connections
Summing Up
Notes
References
Chapter 7: The Benefits and Necessary Evils of Netflix Kids and the Streaming Media Child
Netflix Fosters New Ways of Seeing Time and Space
Netflix is “woke” …. kind of
Call to Action
Notes
References
Index
