Deborah Castro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Castro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Castro |
| SIGNATURE | CASTRO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7980-0964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
El impacto de Netflix en el turismo audiovisual: El Eternauta y Cien años de soledad
Introducción: Se estudia el impacto en el turismo audiovisual en Argentina y Colombia de las series de Netflix El Eternauta y Cien años de Soledad a partir de tres aspectos: generación de empleo vinculado al turismo; aporte económico de las producciones al sector audiovisual y el desarrollo de estrategias destinadas al fomento del turismo cultural. Adicionalmente, se estudió el rol que Netflix asigna al turismo en su comunicación corporativa. Met…
Presentación del Monográfico: Streaming, bienvenido a la televisión. Nuevas tendencias en el ecosistema de plataformas bajo demanda
Tras una etapa de expansión marcada por la multiplicación de servicios bajo demanda y el auge del consumo sin interrupciones, el sector entra en una fase de madurez caracterizada por la inclusión de publicidad como estrategia para mantener la rentabilidad. Este cambio plantea nuevos desafíos para las audiencias, los creadores, los anunciantes y la televisión tradicional. Se invita a reflexionar sobre las implicaciones de este modelo en los hábito…
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series
This analysis uses a media industry studies approach in conjunction with Caldwell’s concept of “televisuality” to explore the significance of cultural authenticity within Netflix’s industrial discourses. The authors argue that Netflix’s emphasis on cultural authenticity in its global content strategies mirrors the concept of “televisuality” as a form of corporate behavior and cultural representation in the streaming era. Specifically, the finding…
Exploring Barcelona's portrayal in promotional videos and fiction films
High season is coming: Travel motivations of Game of Thrones fans
Despite substantial evidence that media fans are increasingly travelling to the filming locations for movies and TV series, research on core tribal fan film tourists’ travel motivations remains limited. This paper contributes to the scarce literature on this question with a study of the fan tourism phenomenon inspired by the fiction TV series Game of Thrones. The study is based on 68 semi-structured in-depth interviews with fans of the series; sp…
Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders
An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the gl…
Beyond the Giralda: Residents’ interpretations of the Seville portrayed in fictional movies and TV series
This article aims to widen the discussion on destination images and imaginaries circulated via fictional movies and TV series. In particular, it analyzes how people living in film locations interpret media portrayals of their place of residence, which is an uncommon approach in the research conducted to date. To this end, an exploratory qualitative study was carried out in the city of Seville, Spain, which has appeared in multiple movies and TV s…
SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain
This article compares the processes by which Netflix entered national pay-television markets in Israel and Spain. In both contexts, Netflix first establishes itself through collaborations with over-the-top (OTT) television operators and then expands through collaborations with legacy providers. By using the perspective of cross-national comparative research, this analysis complicates the scholarly understandings of subscription video on-demand (S…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Representaciones de la sexualidad femenina en la ficción televisiva española
The overrepresentation of sexual content on television and the debate raised by new femininities have transformed research on sexuality and TV fiction into a fruitful field of study. Content analyses demonstrate that television fiction offers a distorted image of sexuality and that information on relevant sex issues is barely considered. This article analyzes the sexual representations of female characters in Spanish TV fiction using a hybrid met…
Fandom televisivo y construcción de identidad. Análisis de los comentarios de las fans españolas y los community managers
La era digital ofrece a los espectadores de ficción televisiva una variedad de espacios en los cuales revelar su propia identidad y las emociones generadas por los textos consumidos. Metodología. Se analizan 7.849 comentarios publicados por mujeres fans y community managers en 122 sites (foros y redes sociales) dedicados a la ficción televisiva española. Los 22.301 ítems resultantes exploran las emociones generadas por la ficción televisiva, tale…
Promotion of Spanish scripted television on the internet: Analyzing broadcast-related websites’ content and social audience
This article summarizes an investigation into the strategies employed to promote Spanish scripted television (TV fiction) on the Internet. The role of mediation between television networks and their audiences is studied through the content analysis of 515 broadcast-related web sites and 7,849 comments posted by community managers and internet users with assumed feminine digital identities on official and unofficial sites. The official sites are m…
SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain
This article compares the processes by which Netflix entered national pay-television markets in Israel and Spain. In both contexts, Netflix first establishes itself through collaborations with over-the-top (OTT) television operators and then expands through collaborations with legacy providers. By using the perspective of cross-national comparative research, this analysis complicates the scholarly understandings of subscription video on-demand (S…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
Fandom televisivo y construcción de identidad. Análisis de los comentarios de las fans españolas y los community managers
La era digital ofrece a los espectadores de ficción televisiva una variedad de espacios en los cuales revelar su propia identidad y las emociones generadas por los textos consumidos. Metodología. Se analizan 7.849 comentarios publicados por mujeres fans y community managers en 122 sites (foros y redes sociales) dedicados a la ficción televisiva española. Los 22.301 ítems resultantes exploran las emociones generadas por la ficción televisiva, tale…
Exploring Barcelona's portrayal in promotional videos and fiction films
Beyond the Giralda: Residents’ interpretations of the Seville portrayed in fictional movies and TV series
This article aims to widen the discussion on destination images and imaginaries circulated via fictional movies and TV series. In particular, it analyzes how people living in film locations interpret media portrayals of their place of residence, which is an uncommon approach in the research conducted to date. To this end, an exploratory qualitative study was carried out in the city of Seville, Spain, which has appeared in multiple movies and TV s…
Promotion of Spanish scripted television on the internet: Analyzing broadcast-related websites’ content and social audience
This article summarizes an investigation into the strategies employed to promote Spanish scripted television (TV fiction) on the Internet. The role of mediation between television networks and their audiences is studied through the content analysis of 515 broadcast-related web sites and 7,849 comments posted by community managers and internet users with assumed feminine digital identities on official and unofficial sites. The official sites are m…
Promotion of Spanish scripted television on the internet: Analyzing broadcast-related websites’ content and social audience
This article summarizes an investigation into the strategies employed to promote Spanish scripted television (TV fiction) on the Internet. The role of mediation between television networks and their audiences is studied through the content analysis of 515 broadcast-related web sites and 7,849 comments posted by community managers and internet users with assumed feminine digital identities on official and unofficial sites. The official sites are m…
Representaciones de la sexualidad femenina en la ficción televisiva española
The overrepresentation of sexual content on television and the debate raised by new femininities have transformed research on sexuality and TV fiction into a fruitful field of study. Content analyses demonstrate that television fiction offers a distorted image of sexuality and that information on relevant sex issues is barely considered. This article analyzes the sexual representations of female characters in Spanish TV fiction using a hybrid met…
Fandom televisivo y construcción de identidad. Análisis de los comentarios de las fans españolas y los community managers
La era digital ofrece a los espectadores de ficción televisiva una variedad de espacios en los cuales revelar su propia identidad y las emociones generadas por los textos consumidos. Metodología. Se analizan 7.849 comentarios publicados por mujeres fans y community managers en 122 sites (foros y redes sociales) dedicados a la ficción televisiva española. Los 22.301 ítems resultantes exploran las emociones generadas por la ficción televisiva, tale…
Class, pay TV access and Netflix in Latin America: Transformation within a digital divide
In the context of international flows of media products, this article offers an exploration of pay TV and the prospects for streaming television usage in the Latin American region. Based on audience preference data gathered by Kantar Media, the article offers an overview of how the pre-Netflix era looked like in the region. Drawing on the theories of cultural proximity and cultural discount, our results suggest that the international nature of Ne…
SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain
This article compares the processes by which Netflix entered national pay-television markets in Israel and Spain. In both contexts, Netflix first establishes itself through collaborations with over-the-top (OTT) television operators and then expands through collaborations with legacy providers. By using the perspective of cross-national comparative research, this analysis complicates the scholarly understandings of subscription video on-demand (S…
Beyond the Giralda: Residents’ interpretations of the Seville portrayed in fictional movies and TV series
This article aims to widen the discussion on destination images and imaginaries circulated via fictional movies and TV series. In particular, it analyzes how people living in film locations interpret media portrayals of their place of residence, which is an uncommon approach in the research conducted to date. To this end, an exploratory qualitative study was carried out in the city of Seville, Spain, which has appeared in multiple movies and TV s…
Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders
An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the gl…
High season is coming: Travel motivations of Game of Thrones fans
Despite substantial evidence that media fans are increasingly travelling to the filming locations for movies and TV series, research on core tribal fan film tourists’ travel motivations remains limited. This paper contributes to the scarce literature on this question with a study of the fan tourism phenomenon inspired by the fiction TV series Game of Thrones. The study is based on 68 semi-structured in-depth interviews with fans of the series; sp…
Presentación del Monográfico: Streaming, bienvenido a la televisión. Nuevas tendencias en el ecosistema de plataformas bajo demanda
Tras una etapa de expansión marcada por la multiplicación de servicios bajo demanda y el auge del consumo sin interrupciones, el sector entra en una fase de madurez caracterizada por la inclusión de publicidad como estrategia para mantener la rentabilidad. Este cambio plantea nuevos desafíos para las audiencias, los creadores, los anunciantes y la televisión tradicional. Se invita a reflexionar sobre las implicaciones de este modelo en los hábito…
Cultural Authenticity as Netflix Televisuality: Streaming Industry Discourse and Globally Commissioned Original Series
This analysis uses a media industry studies approach in conjunction with Caldwell’s concept of “televisuality” to explore the significance of cultural authenticity within Netflix’s industrial discourses. The authors argue that Netflix’s emphasis on cultural authenticity in its global content strategies mirrors the concept of “televisuality” as a form of corporate behavior and cultural representation in the streaming era. Specifically, the finding…
Exploring Barcelona's portrayal in promotional videos and fiction films
El impacto de Netflix en el turismo audiovisual: El Eternauta y Cien años de soledad
Introducción: Se estudia el impacto en el turismo audiovisual en Argentina y Colombia de las series de Netflix El Eternauta y Cien años de Soledad a partir de tres aspectos: generación de empleo vinculado al turismo; aporte económico de las producciones al sector audiovisual y el desarrollo de estrategias destinadas al fomento del turismo cultural. Adicionalmente, se estudió el rol que Netflix asigna al turismo en su comunicación corporativa. Met…
Advertising (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works)