Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies
The main aim of this book chapter was to explore how young adults viewers in Germany and in the N... more The main aim of this book chapter was to explore how young adults viewers in Germany and in the Netherlands integrate binge-watching practices into their everyday lives. For this purpose, 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The data collected was analysed by means of textual analysis during which the following themes emerged: (a) media consumption and preferences, which allowed us to contextualised and reach a better understanding of interviewees’ binge-watching behaviours; (b) integration of TV in young adults’ lives, where we explored the gratifications people obtained from the consumption of TV fiction and social viewing practices and (c) intensive viewing, where we discussed interviewees’ critical points of view of their TV consumption.
This book YOUNG & CREATIVE – Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims t... more This book YOUNG & CREATIVE – Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations. We want to show the opportunities of digital technologies for creative processes of children and young people. The access to digital technology and its growing convergence has allowed young people to experiment active roles as cultural producers. Participation becomes a keyword when “consumers take media into their own hands”. Digital technologies offer the potential of different forms of participatory media culture, and finally creative practices.YOUNG and CREATIVE is a mix of research articles, interviews and case studies. The target audience of this book is students, professionals and researchers working in the field of education, communication, children and youth studies, new literacy studies and media and information literacy
Lush tropical scenery of evergreen flora surrounded by turquoise-blue coral gardens. Smiling, hea... more Lush tropical scenery of evergreen flora surrounded by turquoise-blue coral gardens. Smiling, healthy and athletic people consuming real food and living in perfect harmony with their natural environment. No cars, no telephone nor internet, no air conditioning, no tourists. This is the scene set by Australian filmmakers Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for their exotic romance movie, Tanna, which takes place on the island of the same name. Tanna may look like paradise but the film’s protagonists deal with a serious problem: true love and one of its most fatal consequences, to die of a broken heart. Having done anthropological fieldwork on Tanna over a period of 25 years, I have been invited to attend public screenings of the film, in order to contextualise the life of the actors who appear in it. In discussions with audiences, my comments about real-life Tanna always provoked the same refrain: “the dream has been shattered”. The fact is that the tribal groups featured in the movie have been among the most filmed and also the most visited by tourists. Like other Tannese people they have mobile phones, drive cars, watch movies and football games, eat rice and instant noodles. Those who migrate to the capital of Vanuatu, Port-Vila, often live in slums and work as security guards. However, when they live on their home island, they still maintain relative autonomy. There, money is not yet the most important good, so people are glad participate in the shooting of a movie. That’s why the end result is pretty good. This story, set in a remote corner of the world, has become a world success. Sadly, since the movie was shot, Cyclone Pam has very severely damaged the island. After the disaster, there are no more leaves on trees and of course no more fruit, no more food, no more traditional houses, and perhaps no more smiling people ready to participate in a cinematic adventure about tropical paradise.
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies
The main aim of this book chapter was to explore how young adults viewers in Germany and in the N... more The main aim of this book chapter was to explore how young adults viewers in Germany and in the Netherlands integrate binge-watching practices into their everyday lives. For this purpose, 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The data collected was analysed by means of textual analysis during which the following themes emerged: (a) media consumption and preferences, which allowed us to contextualised and reach a better understanding of interviewees’ binge-watching behaviours; (b) integration of TV in young adults’ lives, where we explored the gratifications people obtained from the consumption of TV fiction and social viewing practices and (c) intensive viewing, where we discussed interviewees’ critical points of view of their TV consumption.
This book YOUNG & CREATIVE – Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims t... more This book YOUNG & CREATIVE – Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations. We want to show the opportunities of digital technologies for creative processes of children and young people. The access to digital technology and its growing convergence has allowed young people to experiment active roles as cultural producers. Participation becomes a keyword when “consumers take media into their own hands”. Digital technologies offer the potential of different forms of participatory media culture, and finally creative practices.YOUNG and CREATIVE is a mix of research articles, interviews and case studies. The target audience of this book is students, professionals and researchers working in the field of education, communication, children and youth studies, new literacy studies and media and information literacy
Lush tropical scenery of evergreen flora surrounded by turquoise-blue coral gardens. Smiling, hea... more Lush tropical scenery of evergreen flora surrounded by turquoise-blue coral gardens. Smiling, healthy and athletic people consuming real food and living in perfect harmony with their natural environment. No cars, no telephone nor internet, no air conditioning, no tourists. This is the scene set by Australian filmmakers Martin Butler and Bentley Dean for their exotic romance movie, Tanna, which takes place on the island of the same name. Tanna may look like paradise but the film’s protagonists deal with a serious problem: true love and one of its most fatal consequences, to die of a broken heart. Having done anthropological fieldwork on Tanna over a period of 25 years, I have been invited to attend public screenings of the film, in order to contextualise the life of the actors who appear in it. In discussions with audiences, my comments about real-life Tanna always provoked the same refrain: “the dream has been shattered”. The fact is that the tribal groups featured in the movie have been among the most filmed and also the most visited by tourists. Like other Tannese people they have mobile phones, drive cars, watch movies and football games, eat rice and instant noodles. Those who migrate to the capital of Vanuatu, Port-Vila, often live in slums and work as security guards. However, when they live on their home island, they still maintain relative autonomy. There, money is not yet the most important good, so people are glad participate in the shooting of a movie. That’s why the end result is pretty good. This story, set in a remote corner of the world, has become a world success. Sadly, since the movie was shot, Cyclone Pam has very severely damaged the island. After the disaster, there are no more leaves on trees and of course no more fruit, no more food, no more traditional houses, and perhaps no more smiling people ready to participate in a cinematic adventure about tropical paradise.
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