Constantly Streaming
Digital Platforms, Touchscreens and Moving Image Spectatorship
Constantly Streaming
Digital Platforms, Touchscreens and Moving Image Spectatorship
Buying pre-order items
Ebooks and Audiobook
You will receive an email with a download link for the ebook or audiobook on the publication date.
Payment
You will not be charged for pre-ordered books until they are available to be shipped. Pre-ordered ebooks will not be charged for until they are available for download.
Amending or cancelling your order
For orders that have not been shipped you can usually make changes to pre-orders up to 72 hours before the publishing date.
Payment for this pre-order will be taken when the item becomes available
Description
Constantly Streaming: Digital Platforms, Touchscreens and Moving Image Spectatorship explores some of the core hardware and software that enable contemporary moving image spectatorship, extending its discussion to the technological, the artistic, and the social.
Drawing on the histories of film spectatorship, affect theory, and the mechanical inception of recorded moving image, this book reflects on the ways our engagement with the medium has shifted following the advent of digital technologies, streaming, and handheld touchscreen devices. It asks questions around engagement, cinephilia and technophilia, loneliness and the social experience of cinema culture, taste, and algorithms, seeking to redefine our relationship to the moving image.
Mapping out the contexts of early film spectatorship and Western cinema cultures, this volume compares the historically social experience of the cinema and film spectatorship as a whole to the contemporary solitary activities encouraged by streaming and image and video-based social media. It demonstrates how these hardware and software innovations prompt new interactions and engagement, fuel problematic habits and excessive media consumption, and structure our viewing experience and expectations of film and TV, as well as social media. Moreover, it demonstrates that the notion of the moving image has become an inseparable part of contemporary culture and society, expanding its functions and applications and redefining its own ontology. As a result of its constant presence on devices, the moving image is now a continuous stream of information and entertainment that surrounds us, imbuing our existence with its constant digital flicker.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- EPUB 3.0
- Conforms with the requirements of EPUB Accessibility Spec v1.1
- WCAG level AA
- WCAG v2.2 compliant
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
- No accessibility features offered by the reading system, device or reading software are disabled or otherwise unusable with the product
- Has alternative text descriptions for images
Visual adjustments
Appearance of the text and page layout can be modified according to the capabilities of the reading system (font family and size, spaces, as well as color of background and text)
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
- Content is enhanced with ARIA roles to optimize organization and facilitate navigation
- Purposes of all links are made clear
Rich content
Language tagging provided
Table of Contents
Introduction: Are You Watching Closely?
1. Walking Along the Digital Arcade
2. The Rules of Spectatorship
3. Fear and Anxiety in the Digital Age
4. Moving Image is a Digital Object
Conclusion: Are You Still Watching? Step In!
Index
Product details
| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9798765141908 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
