DIGISCREENS - Identities and Democratic Values on European Screens
"DIGISCREENS - Identities and democratic values on European digital screens: Distribution, reception, and representation" asks how the streaming of audiovisual content from a great geographical diversity affect: a) the construction of identity and socio-cultural aspects such as gender, race, class and sexuality in film and TV series distributed in Europe, b) European audiences' reception of this content and negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity
Duration
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About the research project
The project has the objective to analyse how current practices of digital distribution of films and TV series on global and national platforms intertwine with the representation and the reception of identities and democratic values. We problematise how European distribution policies and individualised algorithms govern public and commercial platforms, creating both 鈥渇ilter bubbles鈥 and a promise of common democratic values and models of identity. Thereby the project asks how the increased possibilities for audiences to watch audiovisual content from a great geographical diversity affect our construction of identity and understanding of the other, as well as our negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity.
By investigating digital film and TV distribution, representation, and reception in Norway, Sweden, France, Spain and Lithuania, this project discusses how transnational distribution and consumption of audiovisual content may create social encounters and a sense of global integration. By combining methodologies from media studies, anthropology, literature, cultural and political analysis, we compare how members of different social and cultural groups perceive their roles, rights and democratic participation in contemporary Europe.
DIGISCREENS is a collaborative project led by Dr. Maud Ceuterick (University of Bergen, Norway), in collaboration with Principal Investigators Dr. Lina Kaminskait臈-Jan膷orien臈 (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lithuania), Prof. Maria Jansson (Orebro University, Sweden), and Prof. Adelina S谩nchez (University of Granada, Spain).
Objectives
DIGISCREENS consists of four Work Packages (WP):
WP1: Overview of practices of digital distribution aims to produce an overview of practices of digital distribution cross-nationally, in France, Lithuania, Norway, Spain and Sweden, and of differences in consumption of streaming platforms and accessibility to national/transnational productions across the countries studied (PI: Lina Kaminskaite虈-Janc虒oriene虈).
WP2: Close readings of identities and democratic values on digital screens aims to provide new insights into how distribution practices play a role in the representation of identities and democratic values on screen across Europe, through the close analysis of a selection of popular content on popular platforms (PI: Adelina Sa虂nchez).
WP3: Qualitative study of viewers鈥 reception of transnational identities and democratic values aims to develop an understanding of how individual viewers discuss their consumption habits of digital platforms and produce an in-depth analysis of how current transnational consumption and distribution models affect viewers鈥 reception and negotiation of identities and democratic values as they are represented on digital screens (PI: Maria Jansson).
Finally, WP4: Develop a cross-national theory on cultural transformations of digital distribution in Europe aims to to compare the results from the first three work packages implemented at national level, resulting thus in the production of a cross-national theory of the impact of the digitalisation of distribution on AV content and reception habits in the European context (PI: Maud Ceuterick).
Publications
DIGISCREENS - PUBLICATIONS
DIGISCREENS - PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming
- Ceuterick, M. (Forthcoming). Production of public quality television in the streaming era: Controversy, popularity, and social relevance at the Norwegian Public Broadcaster NRK. Critical Studies in Television.
2025
- Calder贸n Sansoval, O., Medina, P., & S谩nchez-Espinosa A. (2025). The (neoliberal) feminism of global SVOD platforms, Netflix鈥檚 inclusion policy, and the negotiations of women audiovisual creators: two Spanish case studies. Feminist Media Studies 1鈥16.诲辞颈:
- Jansson, M., Calder贸n-Sandoval, O. & Oral, T. (2025).鈥疓ender equality and diversity discourses intertwined with the implementation of the EU audiovisual media services directive in Lithuania, Spain, and Sweden.鈥The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 1-23, doi:
- Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2025).鈥疶he politics of constructing television audiences: Diversity, equality and inclusion in Swedish media policy.鈥Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, online first, doi:
- Malet, M. (2025). La dimension collective et sociale des s茅ries dystopiques 脿 l鈥櫭﹑reuve du streaming ? Enqu锚te sur les pratiques de visionnage et les r茅ceptions des s茅ries dystopiques en contexte num茅rique, in V. Bullich & L. Schmitt (eds.), Les plateformes de vid茅os 脿 la demande en France. Au-del脿 de Netflix et YouTube, Editions des archives contemporaines, 399-416. doi:
- Van Belle, J., Aitaki, G. & Jansson, M. (2025). Audiovisual fiction and democracy: A systematic literature review. Nordicom Review, 46(1): 55-83. doi:
2024
- Calder贸n Sandoval, O., Rivera Izquierdo, A, & Sanchez Espinosa, A. (2024). Race-ing Masculinity: An Intersectional Analysis of Representations of Latinidad in the Spanish Public Platform Series Riders. Feminist Media Histories 10 (4): 109鈥131. doi:
- Ceuterick, M. & Malet, M. (2024). The (in)visibility of diversity on national streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 30(4), 1402-1424. doi:
- Jansson, M. & Van Belle, J. (2024).鈥疢arkets as free speech providers and political resignation: Swedish (non)regulation of streaming platforms.鈥Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 15 (2), 279-295, doi: 鈥&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;&苍产蝉辫;
UNDER REVIEW
- Ceuterick, M. (under review). An integrated multi-method to television studies in the streaming era: gender violence on screen in a Norwegian public broadcaster context. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Issue 29.
- Malet, M. (under review). Tokenism or Transformation? Banlieue Women and Conditional Diversity in French Streaming Series. Television & New Media.
- Oral T. and Kaminskait臈-Jan膷orien臈 L. (under review). The TV Series 鈥淏ad Girl鈥 and the Youthification of Lithuanian Public Service Broadcasting. Baltic Screen Media Review.
- 艩upa M., Rakauskait臈 U., Kaminskait臈-Jan膷orien臈 L. (under review). "I'm even more interested in seeing a film that a lot of people didn't like": watching behaviour, viewer agency, and local imaginaries in Lithuania. Critical Studies in Television.
- Van Belle, J. & Jansson, M. (under review) The potential for solidarity in fiction: sympathy and gaze in the streaming era. Mediascapes.
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