Here you can download the event program<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn this conference, I presented an incipient academic work about Narcos, a recent Netflix production. Here are the title and abstract of my paper.<\/p>\n
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Netflix: A Technological Value-Free Television Company? <\/strong><\/p>\nThe Series Narcos as a Case Study<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a recent article in the New York Times, Bill Wasik (Wasik, 2015) coined the term \u201cdigital imperialism\u201d for referring to the global expansion of tech companies that claim to be spreading communication structures and services that do not have intrinsic political and cultural values. However, this value-free economic development can be contested. There is evidence that these leading tech companies are spreading technology and services that indeed contain specific political and cultural values. In this sense, this article presents a textual analysis of the series Narcos (Padhila, 2015), one of Netflix\u2019s recent production for Latin America. Netflix is an Internet-based television network that began as “DVD-rental-by-mail firm” in 1997. Since that time, this company has been growing and expanding its scope of action. In 2011, Netflix started offering services in Latin America and the Caribbean and in 2016 released Narcos, the first season of a fiction series composed of ten chapters that narrate the story of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, a drug dealer that created a smuggling route between Colombia and Miami. According to a press release, the producers wanted, \u201cto tell the true story of how cocaine became such a huge problem in the U.S. and Europe, and how it all started in Medellin.\u201d Although Narcos was filmed in Colombia and produced by Latin American filmmakers and actors, this series is a complex media text that conveys political and cultural hegemonic values about the contemporary drug trafficking. Drawing from a theoretical framework that builds upon the concepts of hegemony and ideology in order to explain the power relations included in media texts, this article presents a textual analysis of the script and footage of the opening chapter of Narcos\u2019 first season. The main conclusion of this study is that, despite some multicultural characteristics, Narcos is an audiovisual text that bears a system of meanings and a narration structure that reproduce an uncritical and hegemonic understanding of the origins of drug trafficking and the asymmetrical relations between the United States and Latin America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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