Researching Binge-Watching. (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jenner, Mareike
• Is Part Of: Critical studies in television. Volume 15:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 279
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: Binge-watching -- fan studies and audience reception research -- narratology -- technologies histories of TV; Television -- Periodicals; Television criticism -- Periodicals; 384.5505
• DOI: 10.1177/1749602020935012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-6020

Abstract

This piece gives an overview of the different ways binge-watching is explored and analysed in contemporary television studies. It specifically explores the way binge-watching has been covered in the technological histories of television, fan studies, audience reception research, and narratology. In this, it insists that binge-watching is deployed in different ways within the broad and diverse field of television studies. The distinct uses of binge-watching in different sub-fields of television studies makes it a term that can be deployed in a variety of ways, suggesting that there can be no 'one' definition, also allowing for its resilience in the face of constant change of the medium.