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Sunday, October 4, 2009
Week1 Reading-Chapter 2
Chapter two of "Convergence Culture" is titled "Buying into American Idol". Within this chapter takes a look at one of the most popular reality shows in our history that has shaped the way consumers watch TV. According to Jenkins, producers used to believe that viewers just wanted to watch TV and not be bothered with the interaction of logging-on to participate in polls. However, when American Idol started that theory was proven incorrect. It was due to the reality show that texting became an new way to collaborate instantly. American Idol started what I call "The Circle of Multimedia Life". It is do to the new way consumers watch TV, that a circle of profit begins. For example American Idol started text voting, which in return made the phone companies profit from the texting craze. Not only did phone companies profit from the convergence but, according to Jenkins, reality TV episodes are shorter lived than a typical television episode which result in the increase of sales of DVDs to the die-hard fans. Below is a photo taken from http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/american-idol/100036?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=worldnow&profileid=01
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Funny thing is that texting was big in Northern Europe and Japan long before it hit in the US primarily because texting is a better way to communicate when you're somewhere where you don't want others to overhear the conversation, crowded places like Europe and Japan.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I noticed that you are posting links to images instead of embedding them in your entries. Or, I'm just not seeing them. You might want to double-check what you are doing. You probably need to copy the image to your desktop and then, in Blogger, tell Blogger to add the image to your entry. Something's getting lost in translation. Not life and death, but something you want to fix by week 2.