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36 lines
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title: 'Notes from Flow:; Watching Television Off-Television'
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date: '2006-10-29T05:17:01-05:00'
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permalink: /notes-from-flow-watching-television-off-television/
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tags:
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- conferences
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- television
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More notes from a very interesting session of Flow.
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session 3: watching television off-television
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will brooker: watching television on download; removing program from television flow and moving it into larger flow (“overflow”); window among other windows; trans-media storytelling
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jason mittell: the economics of attention: notion of the ‘attention economy’ is misnamed, as it’s not a zero sum game–must track the flow of our attention; because of YouTube, etc., our attention doesn’t have to follow the schedule; complex interactions of Lost ARG (which “solved” certain mysteries) and the series (which isn’t treating those mysteries as solved)
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daniel chamberlain: rise in importance of interfaces: tivo, ipod, youtube, etc.
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henry jenkins: can we build audience activism in order to enable producers to make shows directly for the public, rather than for the networks–subscription-based model for cult/fan shows; fans might be able to become “associates” of the show, earning a small amount for their advocacy in building the audience
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jonathan gray: class divisions inherent in some of these technologies and abilities to watch television off-television; will this create a new kind of digital divide?
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joel greenberg: differences in tv use among actual viewers (compares watching a season at a time on dvd to reading a novel); participation; what it means when we’re not all watching the same thing
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derek johnson: how tv’s connection to other media restructures spatial relations of media consumption; content connectivity–janet murray and hyperseriality; new modes invite audiences into sphere of production; hyperdiegesis–sense that television is a space that can be inhabited; ways that videogames allow players to navigate the spaces of television series; analog variants also–toys, print
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unsatisfying nature of some of the overflow texts for fans of the television series that they arise from–Lost ARG players were unhappy with the game because it wasn’t much of a game, and they wanted to play!
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tara mcpherson: isn’t it interesting that we find ourselves always bifurcating the conversations about the digital and the conversations about race and gender; programming logics and digital structures facilitate those divides; large question about the politics of new media studies–what does it mean that these technologies allow us to separate out our interest in the electronic from our concerns about politics?
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henry jenkins: fan cultures as bootstrapping operation helping other women find their ways into new technologies via community; pew study of internet and american life looking at youth and media making–didn’t come up with gendered findings
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very interesting conversation about the relationships among politics and technology usage
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