Tag: Interactive television

• Virtual Interactive Television

  

  The Virtual World Television (VWTV) project came to an end when Pooky Amsterdam and I published this article with Participations: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/5.pdf In this article, I outline my thoughts on interactive television as consisting of three types of interactivity: Access interactivity: controlling what to watch, when, where and how Social interactivity: engaging with others while watching […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 29, 2017

  Internet Studies, Television Studies

  access interactivity, content interactivity, Interactive television, social interactivity, virtual world television

• Virtual World Television as Interactive Television Published

  

  The work that Pooky Amsterdam and I have done on virtual world television has come to a close with the publication of the project’s second journal article in the latest issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. The article is titled “A Community of Televised Avatars: Interactivities in virtual world television promoting and acknowledging […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 18, 2017

  Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  Interactive television, interactivity, Second Life, Television, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• Virtual World Television and Interactive Television

  

  This is the end result of the work I have been doing with Pooky Amsterdam. This paper is the write-up of the presentation Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television. I do not think there is enough in this paper to make pursuing publication worthwhile, but I do hope to use the categorizations of the three types […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 16, 2016

  Audience/Reception Studies, Television Studies, Virtual Worlds

  “television-as-content”, “television-as-technology”, access interactivity, agency, audiences, broadcasting, content interactivity, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, power, prosumers, social interactivity, Television, User-generated content, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television

  

  This presentation was given at the 100th National Communication Association Conference in Chicago on November 21, 2014. This presentation reflects the work I have done with Pooky Amsterdam to understand the nature and potential of virtual world television as reported in the Journal of Virtual World Research. This presentation was awarded one of the Top […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 22, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

  “television-as-content”, “television-as-technology”, access interactivity, avatars, communal, Community, content interactivity, Giant Snail Racing, Interactive television, interactivity, Metanomics, Relationships, Second Life, social interactivity, social media, Television, The 1st Question, Virtual worlds, Winky Dink

• Beyer Sellers: Dealing with Second Life

  There is a two-for-one today over at Virtual World Television, as we focus today on Beyer Sellers and the VWTV program Metanomics.  Learn more about the struggles of producing in Second Life from Beyer Sellers: Dealing with Second Life.

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 14, 2013

  Virtual Worlds

  Beyer Sellers, Interactive television, Metanomics, Second Life, Television, virtual world television, Virtual worlds

• Virtual World Television as Interactive Television

  

  This presentation was recently given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C.  The presentation focuses on an analysis of our Virtual World Television project, which will be ramping up as the year continues.  You can find the PowerPoint, with notes, at this blog post.  And stay tuned to this blog and that […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 1, 2013

  Fandom, Internet Studies, Virtual Worlds

  access interactivity, avatars, content interactivity, Interactive television, interactivity, produsers, prosumers, Second Life, social interactivity, virtual world television, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0

• On Transgressing Audiencehood: Web 2.0, Interactivity, and Becoming What We’ve Always Been

  I think I have now determined what my main research trajectory will be, and I wanted to take the opportunity to organize these thoughts to provide the beginning of a structure for how to organize my research, past, present and future. For awhile now, I’ve been convinced that how the new media has affected our […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 20, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies

  Audience, Audience activity, audience-as-consumer, broadcasting, digital media technologies, digital revolution, encoding-decoding, Fandom, Gameplay marketing, gender, Interactive television, interactivity, Internet, interpretive interactivity, media history, minutia reception, new media, nichecasting, online fan communities, passivity, physical interactivity, popular culture, Sense-making, transgressing, Uses and Gratifications, virtual world television, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

• Virtual Living Room: CBS and NBC Experiment with Interactive Television

  In a previous post, I began a discussion on how American producers — professionals, semi-professionals and amateurs — are experimenting with using Internet-based distribution to promote and produce interactive television.  In that post, I highlighted the case study of the live telecast for the SyFy series Ghost Hunters.  In this post, I continue this discussion by […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 1, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Industry Analysis Studies

  CBS, Interactive television, Internet-based television, NBC, Social Viewing Room, Viewing Party