Djoymi Baker is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies at RMIT University. She has published work on children’s screen cultures; intergenerational fandom; film and television genres and reception; streaming cultures; and myth in popular culture. Djoymi is a Chief Investigator on the project Australian Children’s Television Cultures.  

Areas of interest: Film and television reception, Children’s screen cultures, Streaming cultures, Myth reception

Baker, D. (2024). Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: Generational Taste and the Moral Panic of the 1968 Television Season. In C. McGarry, L. Burke, I. Gordon and A. Ndalianis (Eds.), Superheroes Beyond (pp. 98-110). University Press of Mississippi.

Baker, D. (2020). Child’s Play: Addressing the young Cold War audience in Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55). Critical Studies in Television, 1(2), 112–128.

Baker, D. (2018). Hercules: Transmedia Superhero Mythology. In N. Diak (Ed.), The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s (pp. 44–62). McFarland. 

Baker, D. (2018). To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek. I.B. Tauris. 

Baker, D. (2017). Terms of excess: Binge-viewing, epic-viewing, and the Netflix effect. In C. Barker & M. Wiatrowski (Eds.), The Age of Netflix: Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access (pp. 31–54). McFarland.

Baker, D., Balanzategui, J., & Sandars, D. (2023). Netflix, Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV. Routledge. 

Balanzategui, J., Baker, D., & Clift, G. (2024). What is ‘children’s television’ in the streaming era?: Assessing content discoverability through Australian children’s streaming platform fluencies. Convergence, 30(4), 1529–1554. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241264002.