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It has been pointed out that Hannibal was coincidently born in the flux of the development of TVIV (St.James, 2015), a process of televisions moving away from TV sets and traditional regimes, then turning into the matrix media era. One strong piece of evidence is that Hannibal had been cancellated by NBC because of the low rating and was available…

According to Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, the author pinpoints that in radical media convergence, fans’ potentials were “marginal” to media products and consumption, and their abilities were generalized behind most “average consumers” (Henry Jenkins, 2013). Recently, diverse television transformations have extended the concept of media audiences further to connect fan…

“It’s December 2. 2021. And it’s a Thursday. Here in LA, a heavy, dense fog. Very still right now. Fifty-two degrees Fahrenheit. Around 11 Celcius. Today I was thinking about Lana del Rey and her song “Video games” from 2011”. Obviously, these words were like an explosion in Twitter.David Lynch’s career has always been quite…

In Goddard and Hoggs’s words, “trans representations on television and elsewhere should not just be seen as a “progressive signposting of liberal inclusion and celebration of more “mature” and realistic depictions of trans lives’, but as a veritable ‘transing’ of existing television genres and conventions” (Goddard and Hogg, 2020). The last Elite’s season tries to…

by Clara Heras Aguilar33676766 Platformization was defined by Anne Helmond as “the rise of the platform as the dominant infrastructural and economic model of the social web”(Heldmond 2015, 1, Burgess, Craig and Cunningham 2021, 22). This infrastructure behaves as an interconnected digital container in which economic and governmental logics are hidden behind them. The spread…

In 1986, the English rock musician Peter Gabriel scored a worldwide smash with his album So and its leading song Sledgehammer, which became successful both artistically and commercially. As one of the first to use stop motion claymation, the Sledgehammer video directed by Stephen R. Johnson has been praised as groundbreaking and won a series…

As Jenner (2018) states, after a great deal of intensive research and development, the domestic television set is in a number of ways an ineffcient medium of visual broadcasting. Television programming usually revolves around domestic activities; most of the time, it may be a background sound while eating and doing chores. This function is not…

As described by Christopher Hogg on the subject, ‘Trans TV’ refers to “a medium in a process of transformation, and a starting point for reflecting on the emergence of prominent televisual representations of transgender characters, as well as, in some cases, performers, writers and producers.” (Goddard, Hogg, 2020, p.256) Transgender people are currently receiving more…

The original idea of nostalgia as a psychological feeling related to homesickness has been gradually evolved into a socio-cultural phenomenon (Routledge, 2016), which especially popular among the recent Internet distributed TV shows and receive pretty positive feedback form the audiences. They usually involve lots of romanticized pop culture elements of a past decade such as…

Digital transformation is a profound change in the way we live, work and interact to a social, mobile and cloud-based world. As consumers turn their attention to digital channels, media companies are turning to digital transformation to save costs, increase revenue and improve customer retention. One thing that many people don’t realize about today’s media…