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

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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

Zenith Space Commander 600 by Jim Rees

56zenith by D. Harland

TV Remotes by waldopepper

Bokeh and Macro by CameliaTWU

Blurry TV by kittykatfish

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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