binge-watching and contemporary television research

’Binge-watching’ has become an umbrella term for a number of analytical questions in contemporary television studies, serving to describe the structure, marketing and publication model of Netflix and other streaming platforms.

Because the term describes a range of different ideas linked to streaming television programming, research on binge-watching can bring together a number of different and related questions. This edited collection explores binge-watching and its role in contemporary television from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology. This breadth of scope makes it possible to explore a broad variety of meanings and functions of the term and concept in contemporary television studies.

Dr Mareike Jenner is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of Binge-watching and Contemporary Television Studies (2021), Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television (2018) and American TV Detective Drama (2015).