[Air-L] Special Issue Call for Papers - Always On Anywhere: Streaming Television and Its Effects

[Jacob Groshek]

Dear Colleagues (with apologies for any unavoidable cross-posts):

My doctoral student, Sarah Parker Ward, and I are guesting editing a
special issue for the peer reviewed, open access journal *Social Sciences*.
The complete call and submissions instructions are available here
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/Streaming_Television and
summarized below.  Please feel free to message me directly with any
questions.

Always On Anywhere: Streaming Television and Its Effects

The rise of television streaming and online video have made dynamic media
consumption easier than ever, prompting a slow burn on the total hours
dedicated to traditional television watching, particularly among younger
age brackets. From this shift, entirely new consumption patterns continue
to emerge including binge watching, public television consumption,
multi-screening experiences, and even self-guided consumption experiences
of single narratives. At the same time, algorithmic solutions are now
assisting in shaping media exposures on platforms such as Netflix, Hulu and
YouTubeTV, among others.

This special issue seeks to explore this evolving role of television
streaming - and all of the moving parts therein - on health, politics, and
civic discourses. We invite participants to consider how the nature or
consumption of television streaming is affecting human engagement with
these areas at the individual or societal level

Possible areas for focus include, but are not limited to:

   - How are streaming behaviors affecting physical and mental health,
   particularly among adolescents and young adults?
   - Do algorithmic recommendations create or break information silos,
   either improving or restricting civic dialogue?
   - What relationships exist, if any, between specific television
   streaming platforms and the ideologies of the content housed therein as it
   relates to mental health and civic discourse?
   - How do interactive streaming experiences cultivate collaboration or
   community among viewership?
   - How has streaming television changed or impacted our expectations of
   and behaviors related to civic discourse?
   - Does prolonged exposure via binge watching engender deeper
   connectivity between viewer and content?

Submission deadline is October 1, so plenty of time to wrap up summer
research projects and submit :)

Thanks,

Jacob
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Dr. Jacob Groshek
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