Abstract

PINON, Juan. Television in times of streaming. Dixit [online]. 2021, n.35, pp.128-140.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 1688-3497.  https://doi.org/10.22235/d35.2735.

The goal of this presentation is to situate television studies in the context of the technological transformations which triggered the emergence of the digital platforms and their possibilities of content distribution. It starts with a warning on common assumptions from technological determinism perspectives triggered by the enthusiasm on the possibilities that the new media ecology has brought for television distribution; continuing with a reflection on the academic traditions and the way they account for the new modalities of what television is today. For this purpose, a brief survey on the perspectives of television studies and the surge of digital media studies is presented. In relation to the later, infrastructure studies, platform studies, and network studies have gained relevance because they capture the new reality of television on times of streaming. This presentation is based on a theoretical and methodological revision about the centrality of distribution, and its evolution into infrastructure studies (Piñón, 2018, 2019); but also guided by the contribution on television studies and digital media studies proposed by Ramon Lobato (2019).

Keywords : television; digital medias; infrastructure; platforms; network studies..

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