Big and small dataWatching and discussing television series on streaming

  1. Rut Martínez
  2. Pilar Lacasa
  3. Héctor del Castillo
Revista:
Cuadernos.Info

ISSN: 0719-3661

Año de publicación: 2021

Número: 49

Páginas: 331-357

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Cuadernos.Info

Resumen

Este trabajo analiza los procesos de comunicación en medios en línea sobre cuatro series de televisión, todas ellas en Netflix (La Casa de Papel, Peaky Blinders, Elite y Educación Sexual). Nos interesa cómo estas series de streaming son reconstruidas por audiencias específicas en las redes sociales. Nos fijamos en las conversaciones organizadas alrededor de estas series por parte de comunidades digitales de fans en Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, y otros contextos digitales (por ejemplo, las revistas en línea). Se generó un total de 408.536 menciones y 189.040 usuarios como corpus de datos. El proceso de análisis requiere de una canalización del flujo de datos, definiendo un sistema coherente de temas y categorías. El artículo muestra los elementos presentes en las comunidades de fans para reconstruir las historias, por ejemplo, mencionando a actores o a personajes. Aparecen dimensiones muy similares tanto en relación con las historias como con la forma en la que se construyen a partir de una situación pandémica

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