Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix (Expanding Literacies in Education) - Softcover

Pyles, Damiana Gibbons

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032009764 ISBN 13: 9781032009766

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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 ethnicities, Gibbons Pyles explores how this new media phenomenon portrays and influences young people’s development and sense of self, and how streaming media pushes children and teens to particular ways of being in its interfaces, algorithms, and content. Drawing primarily on Bakhtinian, feminist, and female Black scholarship, her incisive analysis reveals how the new media streaming phenomenon molds children’s understandings of their ways of being in the world. Ideal for scholars and graduate students in literacy education, media studies, and communication, the text is an illuminating view into the hidden role of streaming services as an essential, complex component of literacy scholarship.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032009764
• ISBN 13: 9781032009766
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 142