tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post4915166154543807591..comments2023-05-09T02:31:07.268-07:00Comments on CTCS 587: TV Theory 2017: Core Response Week 2Tara McPhersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09874394027026185133noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post-83843679202822255802017-01-23T14:17:34.625-08:002017-01-23T14:17:34.625-08:00Thinking about flow in this new streaming environm...Thinking about flow in this new streaming environment is really interesting. As Nicole mentioned, the flow has shifted from watching one program and then another, but rather from one episode flowing into another episode. <br />Some of the ideas surrounding the so called "liveness" of TV is also really fascinating. Iftinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10552807163736840009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post-49896311144206564082017-01-16T17:53:27.598-08:002017-01-16T17:53:27.598-08:00Adding to the idea of the drastic changes to how t...Adding to the idea of the drastic changes to how television audiences regard and interact with "liveness" and flow today, I think of the absence of scheduling in different streaming websites like Netflix and Hulu. In contrast to the scheduling Williams breaks down in his fourth chapter, whether it's the " ‘moving along’" of trailing sequences "to sustain what is thought of as a kind of brand-loyalty to the channel being watched" (Williams 86) or the eventual maturing of content from morning to night (Williams 89-92), Netflix and Hulu disrupt this flow. If we look at the groupings of shows on these streaming sites, they are not shown in order of timing and scheduling, and are often not grouped together by networks, but rather by genre. The coaxing of audiences into brand-loyalty is no longer based on commercial airings and flow, as different network's shows are mixed in to one another, and can be watched at any time. <br /><br />Netflix and Hulu's invention cuts off a form of brand-loyalty because while "many of us find television very difficult to switch off" today just as when Williams wrote about television (86), we no longer switch on "for a particular ‘program’," and then "find ourselves watching the one after it and the one after that" (86). The necessity of tuning in for one program (because it is airing "live") no longer directly flows us 'into' another program from the same network. Instead, we are either steadfast in watching the series we have "clicked in" to see, or stop watching that program unless we make an active decision to chose another "program" to watch.<br /><br />Additionally, with these streaming sites, we no longer "tune in" during periods of time that are set aside for certain age groups. Netflix does not only show children's cartoons and soaps in the daytime, and more "mature" content in the evenings. Television is no longer time dependent when using streaming devices or recording devices like Tevo or DVR. <br /><br />Is this better for networks, that they can have such active consuming in any part of a day for a large portion of a day, even if it is not on cable television? Or does it keep new programs from being stumbled upon because of the lack of flow from one type of show to another? Or maybe internet hype makes up for the gap.Nicole Danserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06675099653927191990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512870689197311087.post-82778541113850260142017-01-16T11:55:32.823-08:002017-01-16T11:55:32.823-08:00In the ever changing format of television and the ...In the ever changing format of television and the multiple mediums television can be received, the creation of a definition for television is difficult to pinpoint. Jane Feur in “The Concept of Live Television: Ontology as Ideology” focuses on live television as the source of the essential nature of television. She points to Good Morning, America’s flow and fragmentation as the example of “ the essential nature of television” (13). I am interested in how Facebook can be defined as a medium for television reception. Through the social media platform various clips of network, cable, nontraditional programming like Tastee, Buzzfeed, Insider, etc., would pop up on one’s feed. The frequency and differentiation of these media items would vary according to the personal social media ‘echo chamber’.<br /><br />In tying with Feur’s discussion of live television, I am interested in how Facebook Live can be used as a reception of a live program, Feur adding that through a medium’s liveness it can position itself as an “ideological apparatus position[ing] the spectator into its “imaginary” of presence and immediacy” (14). Facebook Live fits the definition of the immediacy and presence necessary to define as live. Any thoughts on how Facebook Live will be used in the future especially in the oncoming presidential inauguration? Or perhaps how in the past it has been used as a political voice for those who are mistreated by the police force?<br /><br />Monica.Dominguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765887552917552575noreply@blogger.com