Colin Crawford

Colin Crawford is a PhD candidate at Concordia University whose research examines the political economy and culture of tech and media industries. His work examines a range of critical issues, from the financialization of media industries, to the politics of tech design, to forgotten histories of media technologies. His current dissertation project is examining the neglected televisual history of Apple, and in so doing, interrogates the evolution of the consumer screen since the 1970s as a prehistory of streaming.

He is the author of the book Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television, published in January 2021 by Rowman & Littlefield

Supervisor: Dr. Marc Steinberg

Thesis Title: Computing Television: Apple and a history of the consumer screen

Research Interests:

Television

Media Industries

Platform Studies

Science and Technology Studies

Financialization

TAships:

SOCI 221 Digital Culture, Instructor Dr. Orit Halpern

FMST 398 Noir without Borders, Instructor Dr. Troy Bordun

FMST 204 Approaches to Film Studies, Instructor Dr. Irene Rozsa

FMST 212: Film Aesthetics, Instructors: Dr. Maria Corrigan & Dr. John Locke

Selected publications:

Netflix’s Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television. 2021. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield

WeChat (2022) in Super Apps, a Platform Lab Report. The Platform Lab, Concordia University

Netflix Anime (2022) Co-authored with Elena Altheman in Anime Streaming Platform Wars: A Platform Lab Report. The Platform Lab, Concordia University

Fictitious Capital: Netflix and the New Narratives of Media Value in Platform Capitalism. Intersections & Cross-sections Conference Proceedings. Ryerson & York Universities, Toronto, Canada

Tech Eschews. (2019) Issues Magazine, 5th edition. Toronto, Canada.

Website: Netflix's Speculative Fictions: Financializing Platform Television

Email: colinjmcrawford@gmail.com

Favourite Film: Beau Travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis