Call for Papers Special Issue nr. 40 – "Communication and fiction on streaming platforms"

03/28/2022

"Communication and fiction on streaming platforms"

Deadline: June 20th, 2022

Guest editors:

  • María Cristina Palma Mungioli (University of São Paulo, Brazil): crismungioli@usp.br
  • Rosario Sánchez Vilela (Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay): rsanchezvilela@gmail.com
  • Giuliana Cassano (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru): gcassano@pucp.edu.pe

 

Call for Papers

            The current context of production, distribution and consumption of television content through the internet strains two paradigms the classic model (broadcasting) and the emerging model (webcasting). It brings great challenges to television studies around the world and, notably, in Latin America. Recent research indicates that Latin America is already the second-fastest-growing streaming market in the world.[1] This is a strategic space for global entertainment companies (such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max) with on-demand subscription services. At the same time, streaming platforms linked to national television industries such as Blim (Televisa, Mexico), Globoplay (Globo, Brazil), América TV GO (Peru), among others, emerge and consolidate in their respective countries and regions. The fierce competition between national and international players - in the context of the expansion of consumption of on-demand content through streaming platforms -, affects several aspects, social, economic, cultural, and, more precisely, the cultural industry itself.

            Considering more directly fiction content, the entry of global companies into spaces previously occupied by national television companies causes transformations that affect all stages of production and consumption, producing tensions between “national” and “international” creative processes and commercial models linked to, among other aspects, script, casting, technical teams, direction, aesthetic and thematic conceptions addressed.

            The objectives of the Communication and Fiction on streaming platforms special issue are to promote analysis and reflection on television narratives and aesthetics and the transformations of fictional genres and formats in the context of a new media ecosystem, marked by the expansion of the internet.

            This special issue aims to receive articles that address different aspects related to television fiction as a space for the construction, production, circulation, and consumption of meanings - that is, as spaces for the construction/deconstruction of social practices, representations, identities - including the economic aspects in this context. This implies observing the content of fiction products from their implications in the configuration of imaginaries and social memories, as a space to represent the various subjectivities in which not only themes and approaches to the social agenda become visible, but also the clashes between the national and transnational in a globalized communication scenario.

THEMATIC AXES

1) Television fiction on streaming platforms: content, genres and formats.

2) Television fiction on streaming platforms: practices and processes of production, circulation and consumption.

3) Algorithms and streaming platforms.

4) Latin American national, regional and local initiatives in the globalized context of the streaming industry.

5) Theories and methodologies for streaming culture.

Guidelines for authors:

The deadline for submitting articles will be july 11, 2022.

The texts must follow the rules of the journal that are available at: http://revista.pubalaic.org/index.php/alaic/about/submissions

 

[1] https://labsnews.com/en/articles/business/latin-america-surpasses-the-u-s-and-europe-and-is-already-the-second-fastest-growing-streaming-market-in-the-world/