Upcoming
Special issue of Media Industries journal: Innovative methods for video-on-demand research. This special issue, including papers from our September 2024 symposium (below), is being developed for publication mid-2025.
Past
12 September 2024: Innovative methods for Video-on-Demand Research
An international workshop at Utrecht University (12 September 2024), organized by Karin van Es (Utrecht University) and Ramon Lobato (RMIT University). The following papers were presented:
- The secret life of VoDs: Mapping longitudinal patterns of 20 European public service Video on Demand services (Jannick Kirk Sørensen, Aalborg University)
- Investigating the materiality of cinephile catalogues with small-scale and cobbled together methods (Martin Bonnard, McGill University)
- Automating intersectional analysis on Canadian VOD services (Stéfany Boisvert, University of Quebec at Montreal)
- Researching global streaming production: How to navigate, lower, and circumvent barriers in the field (Daphne Rena Idiz, University of Amsterdam & Nina Vindum Rasmussen, London School of Economics)
- Nonknowing the environmental impact of video streaming (Judith Keilbach, Utrecht University)
- Netflix and the notion of ‘popularity’: A view from data donations (Karin van Es and Dennis Nguyen, Utrecht University)
- Video-on-demand services in the context of public service media. The multidimensional ways to measure and analyse exposure and consumed diversity (Raul Lobanov, Tallinn University)
- A comparative analysis of the content prominence strategies of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ using a novel data collection method (Grégoire Bideau, Arvester)
- Stranger Tools: Exploring methodological approaches to assessing prominence and discoverability (Catalina Iordache, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Trinidad Garcia Leiva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; and Tim Raats, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Measuring discoverability and prominence of European and domestic works: presenting a first methodological toolbox (Tim Raats, Catalina Iordache and Trinidad Garcia Leiva)
Please reach out if your are planning to organize, or would like to co-organize any events.