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SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/2056305119883426
Keywords
Netflix; binge-watching; attachment; Tumblr; memes; affect
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With the digitization of the entertainment industry, our everyday media encounters become increasingly data-saturated. In the framework of the digital attention economy, lifestyle technologies stimulate and modulate intensive participation on a regular basis. By conceptualizing the American streaming brand and content provider Netflix as a networked experiential environment, this article explores the practice of binge-watching in light of its multilayered possibilities for user engagement. With the focus on the affective entanglements of recommendation, attention, and attachment, the first part of the article foregrounds binge-watching as the main driving force behind Netflix's promotional stance on personalization and quality. The second part provides a situated analysis on how binge-viewing technologies and bodies connect and disconnect by zooming in on users' adaptations of the viral catchphrase Netflix and chill on Tumblr. Highlighting the embodied dynamics of engagement with today's tech brands, I argue for thinking about the value of these dynamics as embedded in the digital logic of contact/capture.
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