Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media: Kids, Teens, and Representation on Netflix Pyles Damiana Gibbons

In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children's and teens' identities. By analyzing how Netflix represents gender, race, and ethnicities, Gibbons Pyles explores how this new media phenomenon portrays and influences young people's development and sense of self, and how streaming media pushes children and teens to particular ways of being in its interfaces, algorithms, and content. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, material, affective, embodied worlds.

Ideal for scholars and graduate Drawing primarily on Bakhtinian, feminist, and female Black scholarship, her incisive analysis reveals how the new media streaming phenomenon molds children's understandings their ways of being in the world.