Streaming direct address integrates devices where Brechtian theater alienated them.

Evidence

Where early twentieth-century theater wielded such directness as a device-baring alienation effect, twenty-first-century streaming instead works through device integration: we watch shows on phones and tablets, emulating FaceTime and Zoom and other apps for apparently intimate conversation—with a rather different effect than alienation. Front-facing cinematography immanentizes the camera into the spectator’s gaze while intoning intimacies of confession and collusion. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 221

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the immediacy feature of ‘device integration’ — the streaming opposite of the Brechtian alienation effect, where the camera is immanentized into the spectator’s gaze.