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How the TV remote changed our lives
The age of egocasting
Remote control
Cable television
On demand
Personal media
Space Command 200
Space Command 200
Space Command 600
Primary use: immobile novelty seeking
http://splicd.com/tSvsWGAsEIM/60/104
Studies
Krendl & Troiano: Toddlers
Perse & Ferguson: Men vs. Women
Eastman & Neal-Lunsford: Viewer loyalty
Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi: Television Addiction
Pediatrics: ADHD
Effects
A nation of grazers
Group polarization
Consumption of culture through mediating technologies
Video recording
Forrester Research: Increased TV use
DTG (UK): 3 more hours per week
Next Research: 5-6 more hours per week
The TiVo Story: Everyone deserves home
entertainment
Trying to watch less leads to more
Increasingly popular in the U.S.
Personal media
Michael Bull: “absent presence”
Gabriel Sherman: “like a drug”
Changing relationship between producer and audience
Questions
Recent changes in media consumption?
Examples of group polarization?
Culture skewed by mediating technologies?
References:
Rosen, C. (Fall 2004- Winter 2005). The age of egocasting. The New Atlantis, Retrieved from: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-age-of-egocasting
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Leichtman, B. (2010). Press release: DVRs now in 40% of U.S. TV households. Retrieved from: http://www.leichtmanresearch.com/press/092710release.html
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