Television 2.0: Viewer and Fan Engagement with Digital TV

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Television 2.0 sets out to document and interrogate shifting patterns of engagement with digital television. Television content has not only been decoupled from the broadcast schedule through the use of digital video recorders (DVRs) but from broadcasting itself through streaming platforms such as Netflix, Vimeo and YouTube as well as downloading platforms such as iTunes and The Pirate Bay. Moreover, television content has been decoupled from the television screen itself as a result of digital convergence and divergence, leading to the proliferation of computer and mobile screens. Television 2.0 is the first book to provide an in-depth empirical investigation into these technological affordances and the implications for viewing and fan participation. It provides a historical overview of television’s central role as a broadcast medium in the household as well as its linkages to participatory culture. Drawing on survey and interview data, Television 2.0 offers critical insights into the ways in which the meanings and uses of contemporary television are shaped not just by digitalization but by domestic relations as well as one’s affective relationship to particular television texts. Finally it rethinks what it means to be a participatory fan, and examines the ways in which established practices such as information seeking and community making are altered and new practices are created through the use of social media. Television 2.0 will be of interest to anyone teaching or studying media and communications. Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Television as Assemblage Researching Television 2.0 Demographic Snapshot The Rest of the Book Chapter 1: Assembling Television: From the Radio to the Internet Chapter 2: Household Assemblers: Patterns of Multiscreen and Multimodal Viewing Chapter 3: Television 2.0 and Everyday Life Chapter 4: Affect and the Television Text Chapter 5: Fandom 2.0: Six Degrees of Participation Notes References Chapter 1: Assembling Television: From the Radio to the Internet Radio Days A Set with a View The Analog Era The Assemblage Goes Digital The Rise of IPTV Rhizomatic TV Concluding Thoughts Notes References Chapter 2: Household Assemblers: Patterns of Multiscreen and Multimodal Viewing Intra-assemblage Relations BTV Engagement Home Delivery Is It Live or Is It Time-Shifted? A Steady Stream IPTV Engagement Download This! The Future Is Hybrid Notes References Chapter 3: Television 2.0 and Everyday Life Structuring the Everyday Television as Background Making Time for TV The Family That Views Together … The More Things Change … Note References Chapter 4: Affect and the Television Text Making a Commitment Your Affective Intensity May Vary Anticipation: No Longer Keeping Me Waiting Once More with Feeling The Collectors On a Binge Concluding Thoughts References Chapter 5: Fandom 2.0: Six Degrees of Participation The Participatory Continuum Information Seeking What Do You Think? Community Making On (the) Line The Producers Concluding Thoughts Notes References Conclusion: Rhizomatic for the People Note References Appendix: Television 2.0 Survey Questions Section A—Demographic and General Television Viewing Information Section B—Television Screen Section C—Computer Screen Section D—Mobile Television Screen. (Cell Phone, iPod, iPad) Section E—Multiple Modes of Viewing Section F—Fandom in the Web 2.0 Era References Index