期刊名称：MedieKultur : Journal of Media and Communication Research
电子版ISSN：1901-9726
出版年度：2020
卷号：36
期号：69
页码：52-70
DOI：10.7146/mediekultur.v36i69.121223
出版社：Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
摘要：This paper explores how audiences engage with Netflix as an intermediary in their digital lives, and how Netflix, as it is designed, creates a highly constrained system for its users. The paper is based on a study of observed use and discussions with Netflix users. It explores the limitations that are designed into Netflix as a digital media platform, and how Netflix users engage with this system that obscures rather than clarifies the contents of the platform. The paper discusses examples of frustration, confusion, and misdirection that Netflix, as a heavily constrained system, cultivates. It argues that the thoughts, feelings, and desires of audiences are not reflected in the data-driven design of digital media platforms like Netflix. Instead, data are used by Netflix to design a personalized environment that acts as a set of blinders which constrain the agency of the audience through an interface designed to dazzle and disorient Netflix users.
关键词：Affordances; agency; design; digital media; Netflix; techno-social systems
其他关键词：Affordances;agency;design;digital media;Netflix;techno-social systems
