2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Linking data about media contents across platforms and national boundaries in Japan and France i
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23KF0070
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
ROTH Martin 立命館大学, 先端総合学術研究科, 准教授 (80867143)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
DELANAUX REMY 立命館大学, 衣笠総合研究機構, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-25 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | SVOD / Netflix / Amazon Prime Video / Disney + / Linked Open Data / Digital Humanities |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this period, the project conducted since the beginning of the JSPS fellowship had a steady progress.
On a technical and pragmatic standpoint, we finished building a software able to collect metadata regarding VOD from the JustWatch platform, and were able to assess the reliability of this data. We know have access to exhaustive SVOD catalogs and we collect them weekly for 3 major global SVOD platforms (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+) in multiple countries.
We conducted a study in partnership with Shinji Oyama (Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto) and Yu-Kei Tse (International Christian Univ., Tokyo) to study the SVOD lansdcape in five major East Asian markets: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, using the data we collected.
We consolidated data for 6 months, studying them through every feature this data allowed us to (distribution by genre, length of time for which works are available, overlap between territories and between platforms) and combined the digital humanities nature of this project with media studies scholars to
Our findings, mostly revealing how those East Asian marketing have some sort of uniformity for those US-based global platforms, but with notable outliers (such as Japan, especially for Amazon) which shows what markets are the main focus for these platforms. Besides, creating such a technical frameworks could lead the way for more data science and digital humanities projects focusing on catalog data.
This research and its conclusions were submitted to the 'Asiascape: Digital Asia' journal in April 2024.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Changes in the data schema made unexpected adjustments to the data harvesting necessary.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We plan on pursuing research in this framework, mostly focusing on submitting a technical-oriented, Digital Humanities submission for the last months of this fellowship.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The change of data structure requires a final round of quality checks, which we plan to do in the coming months.
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