Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television

The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digital estates’, requires new methodologies for underst...

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Main Authors: Evans, Elizabeth, Coughlan, Tim, Shipp, Victoria
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Published: Sage 2017
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Shipp, Victoria
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description The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digital estates’, requires new methodologies for understanding how they operate within the daily lives of audiences. This article uses an innovative, technologically enabled observation methodology to explore how domestic ‘digital estates’ are managed. Dominant throughout our sample is the use of multiple screen technologies to create deliberately passive and ephemeral experiences, highlighting the need to recognise and interrogate the place of ‘passivity’ within televisual and digital screen experiences.
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spelling nottingham-396432020-05-04T18:47:51Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39643/ Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television Evans, Elizabeth Coughlan, Tim Shipp, Victoria The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digital estates’, requires new methodologies for understanding how they operate within the daily lives of audiences. This article uses an innovative, technologically enabled observation methodology to explore how domestic ‘digital estates’ are managed. Dominant throughout our sample is the use of multiple screen technologies to create deliberately passive and ephemeral experiences, highlighting the need to recognise and interrogate the place of ‘passivity’ within televisual and digital screen experiences. Sage 2017-06-01 Article PeerReviewed Evans, Elizabeth, Coughlan, Tim and Shipp, Victoria (2017) Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television. Critical Studies in Television, 12 (2). pp. 191-205. ISSN 1749-6039 Television audiences Television industry Ephemerality Digital technologies Multiscreens Second screen http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749602017698714 doi:10.1177/1749602017698714 doi:10.1177/1749602017698714
spellingShingle Television audiences
Television industry
Ephemerality
Digital technologies
Multiscreens
Second screen
Evans, Elizabeth
Coughlan, Tim
Shipp, Victoria
Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title_full Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title_fullStr Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title_full_unstemmed Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title_short Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
title_sort building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television
topic Television audiences
Television industry
Ephemerality
Digital technologies
Multiscreens
Second screen
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