Pub Date : 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1177/17496020251386521
Elke Weissmann
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Pub Date : 2025-10-07DOI: 10.1177/17496020251378308
Naomi Sakr
Despite accounting for some 60% of the population, Saudi Arabia’s under-30s spent a long time not seeing themselves on screen, except in comedy, satire and drama they made themselves and circulated on YouTube. Things have changed spectacularly under the transformational Vision 2030 project spearheaded by the kingdom’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, launched in 2016 and aimed first and foremost at youth. Drawing on insights from cultural proximity theory, this article explores how a state-sponsored emphasis on Saudi identity and national unity has shaped changes in television production structures and content aimed at engaging young audiences.
尽管沙特阿拉伯的30岁以下人口约占总人口的60%，但他们很长一段时间都没有在屏幕上看到自己，除了他们自己制作并在YouTube上传播的喜剧、讽刺和戏剧。在沙特事实上的统治者、王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（Mohammed Bin Salman）于2016年发起的转型愿景2030项目下，情况发生了惊人的变化，该项目首先针对的是年轻人。根据文化接近理论的见解，本文探讨了国家支持的对沙特身份和民族团结的强调如何影响了旨在吸引年轻观众的电视制作结构和内容的变化。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1177/17496020251383859
Jakob Freudendal, Christa Lykke Christensen, Pia Majbritt Jensen
Drawing on the media psychological concept of motivation, this article explores the reasons behind young audience’s preferences for films and series and examines how two Danish public media institutions have responded to these preferences. Methodologically, the analyses are based on mobile ethnographic studies of 20 children and interviews conducted with key personnel within the two media institutions. The article finds that—despite domestic institutions reshaping their practices to serve young audiences’ preferences—Danish screen content is disadvantaged within a target age group, where US providers of films and series dominate by satisfying preferences for relatable and fascinating content.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-16DOI: 10.1177/17496020251381213
Lucas Priori, Mayka Castellano, Melina Meimaridis
This article explores how YouTube life coaches repurpose traditional anti-TV discourse for the social media age. While previous scholarship critiqued television as a ‘bad object’, this study reveals how such rhetoric now serves digital capitalism and self-optimisation ideologies. Analysis of eight videos shows how coaches blend anti-TV messaging with content creation, creating a paradox: they criticise ‘passive’ media consumption while producing content for viewers who scroll through endless recommendation feeds. This analysis contributes to media studies by showing how historical critiques of television are reconfigured within YouTube’s attention economy, reshaping cultural capital and digital labour in the platform era.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1177/17496020251374473
Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu
This study examines the archives of current affairs programme Raj Britannia, produced by British journalists for transnational satellite broadcaster Zee TV, to better understand historic television journalism practice in the United Kingdom. The article evaluates the role journalists at Zee TV played in advocating, empowering and educating the British Asian diaspora in the run up to the General Election in 1997. The analysis reveals that while Zee TV journalists applied advocacy practices to encourage the viewer to be politically strategic in voting, the tone of programmes mimic mainstream media deficit discourses. This suggests ethnic media may on occasions perform contradictory roles, advocate for their audience and also apply deficit models in a reflection of dominant news ideologies.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-06DOI: 10.1177/17496020251375211
Karin van Es, Catalina Iordache
This paper investigates how Amazon Prime Video’s interface design affects content visibility, specifically analysing the prioritisation of Prime-included versus third-party content. Using the Vignette tool on French accounts, we conducted a mixed-methods analysis of homepage structures, including row hierarchies and title heatmaps across multiple user profiles. We find that while Prime Video shares common strategies with other services (e.g. own content prioritisation and burying the continue watching button), it distinguishes itself with a uniquely dense landing page layout featuring a large number of thumbnails and content rows. This design reveals deeper commercial logics shaped by Amazon’s integrated retail model.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1177/17496020251363032
Eckart Voigts
{"title":"Book Review: German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix SimonSunka, German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023; 361 pp. ISBN 9781501368707 £95 (hbk), 9781501370496 £28.99 (pbk), 9781501368707 £26.09 (ebk (PDF))","authors":"Eckart Voigts","doi":"10.1177/17496020251363032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251363032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1177/17496020251348846
Rebecca Williams
{"title":"EastEnders at 40: Production, text, and audiences","authors":"Rebecca Williams","doi":"10.1177/17496020251348846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251348846","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-03DOI: 10.1177/17496020251374881
Ulrika Sjöberg, Ebba Sundin, Helena Sandberg
The article examines the platformisation of everyday life and children’s television use by exploring how 0–3-year-olds’ television viewing on screen media is embedded into the daily social practices of families in Sweden. It addresses the following research questions: (1) What social practices are organised around young children’s television viewing on screen media? (2) How can these television practices be understood through the domestic processes of appropriation, objectification and incorporation? Using the ‘A Day in the Life’ research design, the analysis explores the practices of play, togetherness, meals and daily routine management.
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