The deep socio-cultural ramifications of shifting paradigms around content categorisation, discoverability and access with the rise of streaming video services and other streaming-based entertainment platforms.

Shifting policy and industry strategies in relation to the organisation of content on streaming services and platforms.
Audience engagement with new and evolving content distribution and categorisation systems, such as streaming video platform interfaces, content recommendation systems and catalogues.

Themes:

Nostalgic Media Futures and Children’s Content in The Streaming Era

Addresses pressing concerns around how children access content across streaming platforms, and how policy and industry strategy in Australia and internationally is seeking to facilitate distinctions between adult and child-oriented content.

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Streaming and Diversity

Works through complex challenges around how and whether diversity of content choices, and diversity within content, is presented to users through algorithmic recommendation systems, platform interface designs, and catalogue organisations.

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Games, Social Media Entertainment and Mobile Media

Seeks to understand how videogames, mobile media and social media entertainment – primarily platforms that offer streaming video – are impacted by distributive logics in streaming video ecologies.

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Designing Policy in the Age of Streaming

Focuses on policy developments related to streaming video and aims to contribute evidence to support policy change.

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Production Pathways and Streaming

This theme examines how screen production pathways have transformed with the rise of streaming, including research with practitioners to determine how they are adapting their practices to work with the streaming industry and the implications of this for the types of screen content produced.

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Nostalgic Media Futures and Children’s Content in The Streaming Era