At the Flicks or Netflix ‒ Digital Monitoring Environments and New Habits ‒ Cinema as a Social Environment and Digital Transformation of Film Watching Practice Cover Image

Sinemada veya Netflix’te ‒ Dijital İzleme Ortamları ve Yeni Alışkanlıklar ‒ Bir Sosyal Ortam Olarak Sinema ve Film İzleme Pratiklerindeki Dijital Dönüşüm
At the Flicks or Netflix ‒ Digital Monitoring Environments and New Habits ‒ Cinema as a Social Environment and Digital Transformation of Film Watching Practice

Author(s): Ayla Torun
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Art
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Cinema; Netflix; Digitalization of Cinema; Online Streaming Platforms; New Media Broadcasting; Film Audience; Audience Research;

Summary/Abstract: One of the habits that New Media brings and changed into daily life is the change in the habit of watching movies. While the viewing habits of individuals born in an environment where the Internet is available differ from previous generations, the cultural consumption habits of adult individuals under the influence of digitalization have also started to change. Not only television but also movie watching experience is realized new media tools through the Internet. While digital platforms that offer flexible hours and options for monitoring, sites that provide monitoring over the web, applications are becoming more and more preferred; digital television broadcasters are rapidly producing new broadcast platforms in the light of these developments. With these developments that changed the viewing habits, cinema halls, which have an important place as a socializing and entertainment environment in the daily life of the city, and the screening of vision films become open to discussion. Especially in recent years, the issue of screening in the cinema or the screening in digital broadcast platforms, which has been the subject of discussion in international festivals with Netflix’s applications, takes the issue beyond the medium problem. In the study, the change created by digital platforms on the habit of watching movies and the effect of this on cinema films and movie theaters as a social environment are revealed by the quantitative field research.

  • Issue Year: 6/2021
  • Issue No: Sp. Iss.
  • Page Range: 370-387
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish