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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"streaming services"”.
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Sports and the Future of Streaming Television: A Study of the Value Sports Content Adds to Streaming Services
As Americans have increasingly started using streaming services as their primary hosts for entertainment, the services have started acquiring content that differentiates themselves from their competitors. Sports have become a common option for services, but the high price to acquire broadcasting …
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Equity on demand : examining gender disparity in the writers for original scripted series on popular streaming services 2013-2017
With the rise in production of original content for Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, the amount of content being produced has increased overall (Adalian & Fernandez, 2017). As a result, the number of employment opportunities has equally risen. However, …
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The animated gaystream: how streaming services, social media, adult fandom, and the visibility of creators have influenced representations of gender and sexuality in twenty-first century U.S. children’s animation
… media sites such as X and Tumblr as well as streaming services such as Netflix and HBOMax have shifted the dynamics between fans, creators and network. In so doing, it analyses the interactions between adult fans and creators of American children’s animation in ways that have been as of yet …
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Stand-up Comedy Visualized
… beyond the halls they are performing through streaming services, podcasts and social media. While comedic performances are typically judged by how 'funny' they are, which could be proxied by the frequency and intensity of laughs through the performance, comedians also explore untapped social …
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Awareness or complicity? : documentaries' depiction of communities marginalized by Christian Nationalism.
The rise of streaming services has made documentaries more accessible than ever before. With this comes the common misconception that the genre is based on truth instead of an interpretation thereof. Due to this broad misconception, it's important to analyze how the public comes to understand the …
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Cloud Live video transfer
… a mainstream media source on the web, live video streaming is growing as a prominent player in the modern marketplace for both businesses and individuals. For instance, a business owner may want to oversee operations while he or she is away, or an individual may want to surveillance their …
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Hollywood Workers vs Tech: In Theory and In the News
… that an industry shift to distribution via streaming services alongside increased vertical integration brought about new imperatives to production and exponentially increased levels of data capture, enabling the labor conditions that led to the strike. Theories of creative labor and …
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Towards a better understanding of music playlist titles and descriptions
… either user-generated or curated by music streaming services, often come with titles and descriptions. Although informative, these titles and descriptions make up a sparse and noisy semantic space that is challenging to be leveraged for tasks such as making music recommendations. This …
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Same song, new dance: analyzing market structure and competition in the digital music aggregation industry
… music stores such as iTunes or digital music streaming services such as Spotify. Digital music aggregator companies offer services similar to major record labels, such as mass distribution, royalty collection, and intellectual property protection. Digital music aggregators provide services to …
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
<p>The swift growth of streaming services has revolutionized the worldwide distribution of media, making it possible for non-English and non-English-adjacent content to reach American consumers on a never-before-seen scale, which is sometimes perceived as an indication of increasing cultural …
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How Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election Eclipsed Frank Underwood’s Election in ‘House of Cards’
… of the entertainment industry. As the rise of streaming services had finally hit its stride, Netflix, the industry disruptor, had released a steady stream of critically acclaimed series, most notably beginning with the platform’s first original program, House of Cards. The series’ main …
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“One Place for All the Ways We Play”: The Corporate Sociotechnical Imaginary of Cloud Game Streaming
… and members of the enthusiast press, cloud game streaming is an emerging technology that is drawing investment from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. While cloud gaming would benefit these companies by giving them more control over their platforms, the technology has a …
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Sparse learning : statistical and optimization perspectives
… to predict user session-length on on-line streaming services. The time spent by a user on a platform depends upon user-specific latent variables which are learned via hierarchical shrinkage. Our framework incorporates flexible parametric/nonparametric models on the covariates and …
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A Netflix experience : reimagining the direct-to-consumer platform
As the streaming wars intensify, Netflix cannot rely solely on its first-mover advantage to remain at the top and must continue to find ways to differentiate itself from competitors. While Netflix is known for having disrupted content delivery, there are still many innovations it can make to the …
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Staging Intersectionality: Power and Performance in American Cultural Texts, 1855-2019
… and legal documents to social media and streaming services, provide ways of understanding the complex relationships between body and voice, performance, and social justice.</p> <p>Building on the research of Uri McMillan, Daphne Brooks, Carla L. Peterson, and Nell Irvin Painter, who …
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"A Sea of Red Ink and Broken Dreams": Copyright, Gatekeeping, and the Curtailing of Creativity and Creators' Rights in the Age of Streaming
… conglomerates, and audiences in the context of streaming services. To that end, a discourse analysis was conducted, analyzing 100 social media posts across Twitter (formerly known as X), Tumblr, and Reddit. The discourses surrounding the writers’ strike highlighted several areas in which there …
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Digital Engagement As A Mechanism For Digital Transformation: An Exploratory Study Of The Performing Arts
… – with millions of social media followers, streaming services, and online ticketing. Yet, these initiatives are fragmented, hard to assess, and there is very little known on how to digitally transform performing arts institutions overall. This research asks: What are the mechanisms driving …
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Money for Nothing: An analysis of the gratifications motivating the purchase of non-compulsory video streaming subscription products
… non-compulsory products on otherwise free video streaming services. Applying uses and gratifications theory (UGT), ten gratifications are hypothesized to motivate the purchase of non-compulsory livestreaming products called “subscriptions” on the Twitch platform. Data was collected using a survey …
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The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum
… augmented reality applications, and online streaming services) and the interrogation of existing theories within museum studies scholarship (such as participatory and Foucaultian theory) this research pursues a direct confrontation with how the extant theory of the museum cannot speak to …
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Digitized Radio broadcast seeker (DRBS)
… receivers to be hosted on the internet as data streaming services. Hosting SDR receivers online allows many users to tune in and listen to broadcast transmissions simultaneously. While significant advancements have been made in SDR hardware technology and making data easily accessible to users, …
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