Netflix y la cultura de la cancelaciónanálisis a través de change.org

  1. Morales Medina, Teresa 1
  2. Cabezas Clavijo, Álvaro 1
  1. 1 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
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    Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/029gnnp81

Journal:
Index.comunicación: Revista científica en el ámbito de la Comunicación Aplicada

ISSN: 2174-1859

Year of publication: 2024

Issue Title: Communication, peace and human rights

Volume: 14

Issue: 1

Pages: 229-254

Type: Article

DOI: 10.62008/IXC/14/01NETFLI DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The phenomenon of cancel culture in the audiovisual industry has been sparsely addressed to date. Therefore, this research analyzes the petitions made on change.org with the aim of canceling Netflix productions. To accomplish this, a quantitative content analysis is conducted on the cancellation requests directed at Netflix and registered on change.org until July 17, 2022. A total of 249 cancellation petitions were identified, accumulating 3,066,008 signatures, and targeting the removal of 63 different contents. The film The First Temptation of Christ received the highest number of cancellation requests, while Cuties accumulated the highest number of signatures. Detailed analysis of four productions reveals that Netflix tends to make few decisions regarding the productions for which cancellation is requested. This, coupled with the low number of petitions recorded in the final stage of this analysis, leads to the conclusion that change.org is not an efficient means to achieve content removal on this audiovisual platform.

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