Tyler Klatt is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in English with an emphasis in Film and Media Studies. His dissertation, “Streaming Film and Television: Industries, Audiences, and Narratives in the Age of Big Tech and the Internet” chronicles the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and YouTube and the sweeping changes across the film and television industries. His dissertation argues for the way internet distribution rooted in AI and data analytics has inaugurated a new paradigm of platform economics for film and TV. His research has appeared in Media, Culture & Society, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Cultures, and Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies. Tyler graduated with a BA in English from Concordia University Irvine in California in 2017. In addition to his work at the Center, he currently teaches film, new media, and literature courses in the UF English department.