Big and small data: Watching and discussing television series on streaming

Abstract

| This paper analyzes the communication processes in online media about four TV series, all of them in Netflix (La Casa de Papel, Peaky Blinders, Elite, and Sex Education). We are interested in how these streaming series are reconstructed by specific audiences in social networks. We look at the conversations in the digital fans’ communities organized around these series on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and other digital contexts (e.g., digital magazines). A total of 408,536 mentions and 189,040 users were generated as the corpus of the data. The analysis process requires a channeling of data flow, defining a coherent system of themes and categories. The paper shows the elements that fans use to reconstruct the stories, for example, mentioning actors or characters. Very similar dimensions appear both in relation to the stories and the way they are constructed from a pandemic situation.