Daphne R Idiz

Biographic Data

ID3047221
NAMEDaphne R Idiz
GIVEN NAMESDaphne R
FAMILY NAMEIdiz
SIGNATUREIDIZ D R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0003-3307-2361
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Streaming Production Cultures

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Nina Vindum RasmussenARTICLETelevision & New Media2026

    Streaming has transformed the landscape of screen production since Netflix launched its video-on-demand service in 2007 and later moved into commissioning content. Rather than treating streaming as a universal industrial logic, this special issue foregrounds the contextually-bound practices, infrastructures, and technologies that condition the creative labor behind these productions. “Streaming production cultures” emerges as a subfield within pr…

  • Building Castles in the Air

    Open AccessSandra Becker, Daphne R IdizARTICLETelevision & New Media2026

    This article examines the rise and fall of Viaplay’s Dutch scripted slate as a case study of “streaming precarity” in Europe. Drawing on seven interviews with producers, screenwriters, and Viaplay executives, alongside trade press and industry reports, we combine production cultures research with “failure studies” and “unproduction studies” to examine cancelled projects. We find that Viaplay was perceived as a European alternative to US streamers…

  • Dubbed over

    Open AccessAndré Campos Rocha, Diego Rios et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

  • Beyond the streaming black box

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Karin Van Es et al.ARTICLENew Media & Society2026References: 16

    Global streaming services have reshaped the media landscape, through their business and distribution models, and their unprecedented collection of and control over data. This article examines how researchers navigate data secrecy and access in contemporary media industries research. Building on critiques of the transparency ideal and black box metaphor, we approach data access as an ongoing, textured, and relational process. Drawing on multi-site…

  • Streaming Production Cultures

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Nina Vindum RasmussenARTICLEMedia Industries2025

    This article responds to recent scholarly debates about the problems of generating empirical data on streaming production cultures. Our proposed roadmap offers strategies to navigate the industry secrecy, barriers to access, and unequal power dynamics that often impede production research. Drawing on combined insights from fifty interviews, we share best practices and dispel myths around accessing screen workers and other industry professionals. …

  • Culture as window dressing? A threefold methodological framework for researching the locality of Netflix series

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Jan Noordegraaf et al.ARTICLECritical Studies in Television…2025References: 29

    Considering the implications of Netflix's role as a content producer for cultural diversity in Europe, this methodological article investigates how to define and measure the locality of Netflix Originals. We employ a threefold methodological study based on industry data analysis, audience reception research, and content analysis. This replicable and scalable methodological design provides a solid analytical framework for future studies examining …

  • Redefining Televisuality

    Frédérique Khazoom, Daphne R IdizARTICLEJournal of Digital Media & Policy2024

    Review of: Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods , Potsdam, 25–27 October 2023

  • Dependence in the online screen industry

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Thomas PoellARTICLEMedia Culture & Society2024Cited by: 6References: 11

    The development of an online screen industry, dominated by a few American and Chinese streaming TV services and video-based platforms, triggers critical questions about the commercial and technological dependence of cultural producers within this industry. Drawing on research in media industries and platform studies, this paper develops a conceptual framework to systematically examine this dependence. Pursuing this aim, we propose to shift the fo…

  • European audiovisual media policy in the age of global video on demand services

    Open AccessDaphne R Idiz, Kristina Irion et al.ARTICLEJournal of Digital Media & Policy2021Cited by: 5References: 10

    This article considers the provisions in the European Union’s revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive concerning video on demand (VOD) services and the effectiveness of supply-side cultural diversity regulations in achieving their purported policy goals of increased production and consumption of European works. Because the Netherlands is the ‘country of origin’ to several multinational VOD services, including Netflix, we conducted a case stu…