Open TV
Innovation beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19983186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aymar Jean Christian (0000-0003-1953-0266, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Open TV (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9781479814909.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4365388198 |
| ISBN | 9781479814909 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
How the internet transformed television Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her response to the absence of diverse black characters on the small screen. Broad City, a feminist sitcom now on Comedy Central, originated as a web series on YouTube, developed directly out of funny women Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s real-life friendship. These unconventional stories took advantage of the freedom afforded outside the traditional television system: online. Open TV shows how we have left “the network era” far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences. Based on interviews with writers, producers, show-runners, and network executives, visits to festivals and award shows, and the experience of producing his own series, Aymar Jean Christian argues that the web brought innovation to television by opening up series development to new producers, fans, and sponsors that had previously been excluded. Online access to distribution provides creative freedom for indie producers, allows for more diverse storytelling from marginalized communities, and introduces new ways of releasing and awarding shows. Open TV is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing environment of television and how the internet can inspire alternatives to what’s on TV tonight
Advertising · Art · Art history · Business · Commercial broadcasting · Digital television · Hollywood · Internet television · Public broadcasting · Telecommunications · Television director · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Engineering · Multimedia Communication and Technology
The queer vanguard
Chinese video streaming services in the context of global platform studies
Ephemeral to empowered? International comparison of women’s participation in web series production, 2012–2019
Stream of Rivals
Affective production value on queer community television
La télévision à l’ère des plateformes
Sexual diversity and streaming television
Streaming Diversité
Web-Series Ads as a New Marketing Media
Brilliant Digital
Queer Rhythms of Continuity
Independent Sports Television in the Networked Era
Beyond Branding
When Mainstream and Alternative Media Integrate
In Plain Sight
The stranger within
Comedy’s double killjoy
Emergent distribution strategies and feminist media practices
Better than television
The Korean Wave as a source of implicit cultural policy
Dossier
Beyond the Binary
We Pay to Buy Ourselves’
Postracial Queer Romance
The Golden Ratio of Algorithms to Artists? Streaming Services and the Platformization of Creativity in American Television Production
From digital originals to skip ahead
Where are they now? Career sustainability and Australian web-series producers
The media and democracy in the digital era
Are we having fun yet
Expanding production value
Awkward Black girls and post-feminist possibilities
Tropes of Jewish Humor in Women-Led Digital Streaming Productions (2010 - 2019)
Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism
Platformized production of homonationalism
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |