A system for the delivery of interactive television programming

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.L. Haskin ◽  
F.L. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Television ◽  
Television Programming

The machine without the ghost: Early interactive television in Japan

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652098375
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Rodwell
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Live Music ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Japanese Television

This article is part of an ongoing ethnography of the Japanese television industry focusing on its attempts to experiment with live, interactive content that was manipulable via smart devices, laptops, and remote controls. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in the Japanese television industry in four major TV network offices and two production companies, it also incorporates interviews with more than 30 broadcast company employees. I use two case studies of early interactive television programming to discuss the strategies producers have used to create community and promote identification among audiences of these shows: ‘ Arashi Feat. You’ was a live music event that courted a large audience through the involvement of a massively popular boy band and promoted the idea of ‘turning viewers into users’ by allowing them to play musical instruments along with the band. ‘ The Last Award’ allowed participants to submit and evaluate each other’s videos live through a dedicated user interface. Through these examples, I argue that participation alters the nature of television spectacle and results in changes to the way producers address and inscribe audiences as cocreators of content. The rhetoric used by interactive television accordingly defaults to ‘we’ and ‘us’ and features accessible and relatable celebrities as surrogates for the audience.

scholarly journals A Lesson in Interactive Television Programming: The Home Book Club on QUBE

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
W. Theodore Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Cable Television ◽  
Book Club ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Cable System ◽  
Television Programming

On December 1, 1977, Warner Communications christened what has become the most publicized and talked about technological development in the field of cable television: QUBE, its two-way interactive cable system.

The Politics of Distance Edcucation

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Mark Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Small Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
College Level ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Fiscal Efficiency

"Distance education" at the college level is well over a century old.  It has served the needs of a numerically large, but proportionately small population of learners who have eschewed the campus classroom.  These correspondence school enrollees, educational TV watchers, and audiocassette listeners have had only modest impact on the structure, mission, and strategy of the institutions serving them.  But that is now changing, and changing very dramatically.  The advent of the Internet, interactive television technology, and web-based instructional software, coupled with administrative and political perceptions of educational reformation and fiscal efficiency, may be causing nothing less than a revolution in higher education.  By applying a feminist model of assessment called "unthinking technology," that is to say, exploring the potential, but unthought of socio-political aspects of this technological revolution, this paper raises significant questions about the security of the traditional academic enterprise.  "The Politics of Distance Education" urges a pro-active embrace of these technologies by the academy in order to enable a legitimate "competency for grievance" so that the protection of the validity of higher education, and legitimacy of the academic profession can be ethically defended and publicly respected, rather than being viewed as mulish resistance to the inevitable.

Teaching An Interactive Television Course On Adulthood and Aging: Making It Happen

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 531-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura K. M. Donorfio ◽  
Catherine Healy
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Television
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