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Gray, Katherine. Streaming time: mediation as a way of life. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7twj-1b79

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TitleStreaming time: mediation as a way of life
NameGray, Katherine (author); Schuller, Kyla (chair); Decena, Carlos (member); Gossy, Mary (member); Bratich, Jack (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-10 (degree)
SubjectMass communication, Gender studies, Film studies, Binge-watching, Digital culture, Livestreaming, Spectatorship, Streaming, Temporality
Extent1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionExamining genres of video streaming, this dissertation asks how does streaming constitute a sensory-affective regime? In other words, how does streaming form a logic or way of making sense of the world through a specific arrangement of time, sensation, and affect? “Streaming Time: Mediation as a Way of Life” contends with streaming as a form of sensory training by considering the production and consumption of streamed video at the level of commercially produced series on streaming services, videos of police violence such as Diamond Reynolds livestream in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile, and the use of livestreaming for political protest, such as livestreaming from protests following George Floyd’s killing by Derek Chauvin in 2020. In doing so, this dissertation frames how streaming facilitates mediation as a way of everyday life and the ideological and political implications of this. More specifically, this dissertation looks to the aesthetic and temporal formations of streaming video to define streaming as a sensory-affective regime.

The key contribution of my research is a theory of streaming time. I develop this concept over the course of the dissertation by examining how different genres of streaming video form a sensory-affective regime. Streaming time encompasses a relationship between user and media that is shaped by the temporal, material, and sensorial conditions of digital life. This embodied and sensorial connection between user and media produces forms of subjecthood that have implications for understanding political action, the politics of engaging with media objects, and labor. Further, this project has significant implications for interdisciplinary scholarship thinking about the relationship between new media, users, and power. Developing a snapshot of digital life in the present, “streaming time” accounts for the significance of one of the most commonly used, yet incompletely theorized, internet technologies of the present day. I examine how the temporality of streaming constructs a connection to state politics that is ever-present and appears impossible to impede. In doing so, I offer a theory of streaming that accounts for the material and affective impact of digital culture on everyday life, and how the embodied experience of streaming informs relations to power and resistance, disappearing relations between labor and leisure, and as such is a critical part of life under neoliberalism today.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7twj-1b79
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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