scholarly journals Enhancing the Television-Viewing Experience through Commercial Interruptions

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif D. Nelson ◽  
Tom Meyvis ◽  
Jeff Galak
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Viewing Experience

Asynchronous Communication

2011 ◽  
pp. 1220-1239
Author(s):  
Brian Amento ◽  
Chris Harrison ◽  
Mukesh Nathan ◽  
Loren Terveen
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Television System ◽  
On Demand ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Communication Modalities ◽  
Viewing Experience

With the advent of digital video recorders and video-on-demand services, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, television viewing which was once a social activity has been reduced to a passive, isolated experience. CollaboraTV was designed to address this new mode of television viewing by directly supporting asynchronous communication. We demonstrated its ability to support this communal viewing experience through a lab study and a month-long field study. Our studies show that users understand and appreciate the utility of asynchronous interaction, are enthusiastic about CollaboraTV’s engaging social communication primitives and value implicit show recommendations from friends. Our results both provide a compelling demonstration of a social television system and raise new challenges for social television communication modalities.

DVD Time: Temporality, Audience Engagement and the New TV Culture of Digital Video

2005 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Cover
Keyword(s):  
Digital Video ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Broadcast Network ◽  
Digital Narrative ◽  
Narrative Format ◽  
New Tv ◽  
Viewing Experience

DVD use and the reported purchase of DVD players have grown markedly in recent years, and in 2002 Lyall Johnson claimed this was growing at the rate of 80 per cent annually. As a digital narrative format, it provides a means of viewing televisual products alternative to broadcast traditions and, significantly, beyond the ‘timeshifted’ video cassette in its analogue and serial format. From a perspective which considers the aesthetics of television production and spectatorship through new digital forms of dissemination, DVD has arguably motivated a style of viewing that sponsors the longer narrative arc, provides greater control to the viewer in terms of how the program is watched, its frequency and the sequence in which a series is viewed, and alters the temporality of television viewing in terms of shifting control of the viewing experience away from a centre—periphery broadcast network to the consumer, audience member or user.

Woeful pageants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Shaughnessy
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Fantasy World ◽  
Kenneth Branagh ◽  
History Of ◽  
Viewing Experience

This chapter considers the screen history of the play, examining the major film versions (directed by Paul Czinner, 1936, Christine Edzard, 1992, and Kenneth Branagh, 2006) and the BBC-Time Life Television Shakespeare production of 1978. None of these has been particularly well-received by critics and audiences, and the chapter discusses their uneasy use of film and television realism to render the pastoral fantasy world of the play. The discussion of the BBC production draws upon the corporation’s audience research data to investigate what actual spectators made of it in the context of the late 1970s television viewing experience.

Asynchronous Communication Fostering Social Interaction with CollaboraTV

2010 ◽  
pp. 732-751
Author(s):  
Brian Amento ◽  
Chris Harrison ◽  
Mukesh Nathan ◽  
Loren Terveen
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Television System ◽  
On Demand ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Communication Modalities ◽  
Viewing Experience

With the advent of digital video recorders and video-on-demand services, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, television viewing which was once a social activity has been reduced to a passive, isolated experience. CollaboraTV was designed to address this new mode of television viewing by directly supporting asynchronous communication. We demonstrated its ability to support this communal viewing experience through a lab study and a month-long field study. Our studies show that users understand and appreciate the utility of asynchronous interaction, are enthusiastic about CollaboraTV’s engaging social communication primitives and value implicit show recommendations from friends. Our results both provide a compelling demonstration of a social television system and raise new challenges for social television communication modalities.

Asynchronous Communication

2010 ◽  
pp. 202-221
Author(s):  
Brian Amento ◽  
Chris Harrison ◽  
Mukesh Nathan ◽  
Loren Terveen
Keyword(s):  
Television Viewing ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Television System ◽  
On Demand ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Communication Modalities ◽  
Viewing Experience

With the advent of digital video recorders and video-on-demand services, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, television viewing which was once a social activity has been reduced to a passive, isolated experience. CollaboraTV was designed to address this new mode of television viewing by directly supporting asynchronous communication. We demonstrated its ability to support this communal viewing experience through a lab study and a month-long field study. Our studies show that users understand and appreciate the utility of asynchronous interaction, are enthusiastic about CollaboraTV’s engaging social communication primitives and value implicit show recommendations from friends. Our results both provide a compelling demonstration of a social television system and raise new challenges for social television communication modalities.

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