1st Edition

Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix

By Damiana Gibbons Pyles Copyright 2023
142 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

142 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children’s and teens’ identities. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, material, affective, and embodied worlds. By analyzing how Netflix represents gender, race, and... Read more

1. Children Go Streaming  2. Streaming Media, Streaming Time: How Netflix’s Children’s Programming Changes How Time Works  3. Visible Interface, Invisible Algorithms: Children Enter Into Netflix’s Algorithmic Space  4. Interactive Dialogic Play: Interactive Streaming Media on Netflix  5. Girls are Snapping: Feminism in Netflix’s Youth Programming  6. What is Blackness?: Netflix’s Representation of African-American Youth  7. The Benefits and Necessary Evils of Netflix Kids and The Streaming Media Child

Biography

Damiana Gibbons Pyles is Professor in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at Appalachian State University, USA.