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Annotated Bibliography On America's Viewing Habits

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This bibliography will allow me to create an organization pattern for my paper that allows me to focus my research on one specific thing. The focus of my bibliography is on Netflix’s ideals, teenagers viewing habits, American’s viewing habits, and the reasons people binge watch. People interested in this topic would be anyone wanting to change their viewing habits of Netflix, or just those curious on how they compare to others habits. When searching for sources I chose those I thought had a wide range of information or solid statistics to back up their points. I searched for “binge watching”, “Netflix binge”, and “teen Netflix”. I didn’t use the sources that didn’t have much information in it or were focused on children’s habits.
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"Is This TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and Binge-watching." New Media & Society 18.2 (2014): 257-73. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.
Mareike Jenner, who has published many articles on US television, wrote this journal over Netflix and new TV. She has quite a bit of knowledge on TV statistics since she has a PhD in Television studies from Aberystwyth. She argues that binge watching has been popular for quite some time however Netflix has made it explode into a habit nearly all American’s participate in. She also defines binge watching and explains some reasons people might participate. This is relevant because it explains some of the reasoning people have to binge watch which will relate to my subjects decisions on binge watching.
Kafka, Peter. "Surprise! You’re Watching More TV Than Ever." AllThingsD. AllThingsD, 4 Dec. 2013. Web. 21 Feb. …show more content…

Sidneyeve is a media professor and has served on the editorial advisory board of many different media related journals and therefore is pretty close to an expert on the ideals media groups have and the statistics of Netflix viewers. She discusses teens viewing habits and the how TV viewing has changed with the growing popularity of Netflix. She claims that Netflix has made us less social and takes away a sense of connectedness because instead of coming together as one viewing group we all view things on our own. I believe these are strong claims however I also believe they can easily be refuted. This source is very helpful in my research because it has a focus on teens and Netflix which is my focus group for my

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