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Identities and Democratic values on European digital screens: Distribution, reception, and representation

Alternativ tittel: Identitet og Demokrati på Europeiske Skjermer: Distribusjon, resepsjon, og representasjon

Tildelt: kr 7,1 mill.

At a time when streaming platforms provide access to film and television from all over the world, DIGISCREENS focuses on how these platforms contribute to transform social and cultural dynamics in Europe. The project asks how the increased possibilities for audiences to watch audiovisual content from a great geographical diversity affect our construction of identity and understanding of the other, as well as our negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity. By looking at film and TV series available on streaming platforms in Norway, Sweden, France, Spain and Lithuania, we will examine what content comes onto our screens, what this content tells us about ourselves and about others, and how we interpret and integrate it in our conception of identities and democracy. This study also aims to investigate algorithmic recommendations of content and the creation of ‘filter bubbles’, as well as the new European policies for increasing diversity and equality on screen.

At a time when streaming platforms provide access to film and television from all over the world, DIGISCREENS focuses on how these platforms contribute to transform social and cultural dynamics in Europe. The project asks how the increased possibilities for audiences to watch audiovisual content from a great geographical diversity affect our construction of identity and understanding of the other, as well as our negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity. DIGISCREENS is a transdisciplinary project that studies film and TV distribution, reception, and representation in the light of the last decades’ policies for increased diversity and inclusivity on screen. In particular, we problematise how European distribution policies and individualised algorithms govern public and commercial platforms, creating both “filter bubbles” and a promise of common democratic values and models of identity. By investigating digital film and TV distribution, representation, and reception in Norway, Sweden, France, Spain and Lithuania, this project discusses how transnational distribution and consumption of audiovisual content may create social encounters and a sense of global integration. By combining methodologies from media studies, anthropology, literature, cultural and political analysis, we compare how members of different social and cultural groups perceive their roles, rights and democratic participation in contemporary Europe.

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