Biography
Michael holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Virginia, USA. From 2015 to 2018, Michael was a Kreitman Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is currently a member of the Global Internet TV Consortium and previously served as the managing editor of The Communication Review between 2011 and 2015.
Michael’s research uses a variety of qualitative methods to address television industries, audiences, and texts from a critical perspective. His work has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Journal of Popular Culture,* Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture*, and Journal of Popular Television.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Assistant professor | Department of Media and Communication
- wayne@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M8-39
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Matt Sienkiewicz & Michael Wayne (2023) - Minority representation in the streaming era: An analysis of Jewish identity in competing subscription video on-demand platforms - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 26 (2), 1-19 - doi: 10.1177/13678779231155507
- Michael L. Wayne & Matt Sienkiewicz (2022) - “We Don’t Aspire to Be Netflix”: Understanding Content Acquisition Practices Among Niche Streaming Services - Television and New Media, 24 (3), 1-18 - doi: 10.1177/15274764221100474 - [link]
- Michael L. Wayne & Ana C. Uribe Sandoval (2021) - Netflix original series, global audiences and discourses of streaming success - Critical Studies in Television, 1-20 - doi: 10.1177/17496020211037259 - [link]
- Michael L. Wayne (2021) - Netflix audience data, streaming industry discourse, and the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television - Media, Culture and Society, 44 (2), 1-17 - doi: 10.1177/01634437211022723 - [link]
- Michael Wayne & Deborah Castro Marino (2020) - SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain - Television & New Media, 1-18 - doi: 10.1177/1527476420926496 - [link]
- Michael Wayne (2020) - Global Portals in National Markets: Branding Netflix in Israel - Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 59 (3), 149-153 - doi: 10.1353/cj.2020.0037 - [link]
- Michael Wayne (2020) - Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution - Journal of Communication, 1-3 - doi: 10.1093/joc/jqz050
- Michael Wayne (2019) - Global Streaming Platforms and National Pay-Television Markets: A Case Study of Netflix and Multi-Channel Providers in Israel - The Communication Review - doi: 10.1080/10714421.2019.1696615 - [link]
- Michael Wayne (2018) - Between the programme and the portal: Thinking about the future of transnational TV branding - Critical Studies in Television, 13 (4), 510-514 - doi: 10.1177/1749602018796747 - [link]
- Michael Wayne (2018) - Netflix, Amazon, and branded television content in subscription video on-demand portals - Media Culture & Society (print), 40 (5), 725-741 - doi: 10.1177/0163443717736118 - [link]
- Michael Wayne (2019) - Branding Young: Marketing OTTs in the Shadow of Netflix
- Michael Wayne (2019) - Constructing the Racist Past in a Post-Racial Age: Colorblind Audiences and Cinemax’s The Knick
- Michael Wayne (2019) - Off-the-Record and Into Print: Making the Most of Industry Interviews in the Age of Netflix
- Michael Wayne (2019) - “Stagnation is the New Up”: A Case Study of Global SVODs and Multi-Channel Providers in Israel
- Michael Wayne (2019) - “Stagnation is the New Up”: Netflix Original Series and Multi-Channel Providers in Israel
- Michael Wayne (2018) - Netflix and the National Television Industry: Examining Multi-Channel Providers in Israel
Internship
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM3041
Media Industries and Audiences
- Level
- BA-1
- Year Level
- BA-1
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM1012
Master Class
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM4500
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM5000
TV Industries in the Age of Streaming
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-3
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM2080
Media and Communication Theory
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, BA-2, Minor, Pre-master, BA-2, Pre-master
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM0004
Production Cultures in the Streaming Ind
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM4356
New Media and the Creative Industries
- Level
- BA-2
- Year Level
- BA-2
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CM2556
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