Reading - Conway Ch. 2-6
Questions
- Who is the public?
- What constitutes the medium, technology?
- What are alternative forms of media?
- What is a sitcom?
- What os flow?
- What can/did TV accomplish
Points
- public is both commercial and broadcast
- online video presents a 2-way communication (there is a pattern to all new forms of media, the pattern of viral video and communication is akin to the beginnings of radio)
- Principle of flow --> Least objectionable programming, scheduling (all of these factors are important in understanding the theory of watching tv)
- genre --> imitation and innovation of TV (certain plots that work continually and formulas for TV, i.e. the sitcom, the Ace of Cakes, CSI's)
- There are different sub-genres of reality TV (TBS, MTV, Vh1, CBS) different people that the V is marketing to
Critique
- left out 'Lost'
- Main content reminder of 103
- Could of used more contemporary examples, Plymouth was outdated
- Newton Minnow adversary could of been presented
- Needed more in depth look at convergence of media
- more links in the online version
- favored a participatory public (unspoken)
- strategies of flow were outdated (from the 1980s)
- Missed larger critiques of the sitcom/genre --> neglected all of film and that nothing changes in the sitcom field
- false dichotomies are presented, giving the reader an either/or option, not relying on how professors overlap
- express on opinion that no one particularly wants
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