Redefining the Anthology: Forms and Affordances in Digital Culture

Taurino, Giulia (2020) Redefining the Anthology: Forms and Affordances in Digital Culture, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Arti visive, performative, mediali, 32 Ciclo. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/9365.
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Abstract

As the longtime dominant U.S. television business model has been challenged in various ways by industrial and technological changes in recent years, more heterogeneous narrative forms have emerged in addition to original serial structures. Indeed, the proliferation of video-on-demand services is forcing seriality to adapt to the contemporary mediascape, giving rise to audiovisual products that can be transferred online and present specificities in production, distribution and reception. One of the outcomes of such changes in U.S. television series at the dawn of the twenty-first century is the anthology series divided in different seasons with separate stories, yet linked by tone and style. My research positions itself in such a technological, industrial and cultural context, where television content is increasingly fragmented. Given such a fragmentation, this thesis considers the ways contemporary television content is distributed in the interaction between algorithmic-driven recommendation processes and more traditional editorial practices. The aim of the project is to investigate the way certain narrative structures typical of the anthology form emerge in the context of U.S. television seriality, starting from specific conditions of production, distribution and consumption in the media industry. By focusing on the evolution (temporal, historical dimension) and on the digital circulation (spatial, geographic dimension) of U.S. anthology series, and observing the peculiarities in their production and style, as well as their distributional networks and the consumption patterns they foster, this thesis ultimately insert itself into a larger conversation on digital-cultural studies. The final purpose is to examine the relation between anthological forms, distribution platforms and consumption models, by proposing a comparative approach to the anthology that is at the same time cross-cultural, cross-historical, cross-genre and accounting for both pre- and post-digital practices for cultural content organization.

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Tipologia del documento
Tesi di dottorato
Autore
Taurino, Giulia
Supervisore
Co-supervisore
Dottorato di ricerca
Ciclo
32
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Settore disciplinare
Settore concorsuale
Parole chiave
anthology, digital culture, media studies, internet studies, platform ecology.
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DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/9365
Data di discussione
20 Marzo 2020
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