The journal is proud to announce the publication of issue 26.05, a special
issue on the Streaming Wars and TV's Next Juncture! This month's articles:


Siobhan O'Flynn, "'Streaming Wars and the Future of Video,' It's Not What
You Think..."
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/streaming-wars-and-the-future-of-video/>

Siobhan O'Flynn critically analyzes how Netflix and The Walt Disney Company
have employed specific strategies for their respective streaming platforms.


Cara Dickason, "Network(ed) Spectatorship: Nation, Nostalgia, and
Broadcasting Streaming on CBS All Access"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/networked-spectatorship-cbs-all-access/>

Cara Dickason uses CBS All Access' *The Good Fight *to explore the role of
the public interest when a broadcast network migrates to a streaming
platform.


Mike Van Esler, "Rethinking the Legacy of MVPDs through Content Aggregation"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/legacy-of-mvpds/>

Mike Van Esler considers the role of content aggregators and offers an
ecological framework that focuses on the supraplatforms of the streaming
media industry.


Mark D. Pepper, "Can Television Diversity Overcome the Rise of Algorithmic
Recommendations?"
<https://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/television-diversity-algorithmic-recommendations/>

Mark D. Pepper ponders the effects of Netflix's algorithm on
categorization, diversity, and truth.


Siobhan Lyons, "A Streaming Comes Across the Sky: Peak TV and the Fate of
Nostalgia"
<http://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/streaming-comes-across-the-sky/>

As audiences become ever more fragmented, Siobhan Lyons looks at the ways
communal nostalgia is increasingly giving way to niche nostalgia.


Jake Pitre, "Confronting the Swarm: Streaming Platform Strategy in an
Uncertain Age" <http://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/confronting-the-swarm/>

Focusing on the Criterion Channel, Jake Pitre interrogates the curatorial
strategies of cinephilic streaming platforms.


Joseph Harrison, "'Rainbow is the New Black': Netflix's Queer Marketing
Moment" <http://www.flowjournal.org/2020/03/rainbow-is-the-new-black/>

Joseph Harrison takes up Netflix's recent ambiguously political advertising
campaign in Italy.


*Flow* <http://flowjournal.org> is a critical forum on television and media
culture published by the Department of Radio-Television-Film
<https://rtf.utexas.edu> at the University of Texas at Austin. *Flow*'s
mission is to provide a space where scholars and the public can discuss
media histories, media studies, and the changing landscape of contemporary
media.

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