Author Type

Faculty

Publication Date

5-2019

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Much current television analysis focuses on the impending demise of the medium,[1] in which audiences are conjectured to splinter into ever more fragmented, minute bundles of viewers, in the aftermath of a proliferating multi-channel environment and as we move further into the digital era with its ever-enhanced viewing options. However, one of the advantages of digitalisation, in the current environment that forces program providers to compete for proportionately harder-to-come-by content to offer consumers, is the increasing availability of international series. Audiences are no longer necessarily – albeit, in the US still dominantly – confined to national fare, but can seek out programming that originates beyond once largely restricted borders. A pressing issue, then, is how to account for characters and narratives that global viewers engage with and come to care about despite differences of geography and other sociocultural factors.

DOI

10.25969/mediarep/4172

Page Range

171-189

Journal Title

NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies

Volume (Issue)

8

Journal ISSN

2213-0217

Comments

E. Deidre Pribram is Emerita Faculty of Communications

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