Streaming is the next phase in my political economic research on Hollywood. Netflix will be the main focus of these posts.
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Netflix’s Crisis of Accumulation: chart book for my SCMS2025 presentation
I will be presenting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference on Friday, April 4 at 6PM. Here is the chart book for the presentation, which contains sources and notes on all of the figures: [ PDF of SCMS2025 Chart Book ] Here is the original abstract I wrote for the presentation:…
The habits of Netflix’s users
Like other streaming services, Netflix does not make its user data public. To date, there are two exceptions to this privacy. Netflix released a large dataset of anonymized user activity when it offered a one million dollar prize for the best AI model that could predict user ratings with data between 1998 and 2005. Netflix…
notes on cinema 