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Lahey, Michael.

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Soft control: Television's relationship to digital micromedia.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Soft control: Television's relationship to digital micromedia./
Author:	Lahey, Michael.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-04A(E).
Subject:	Speech Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3607011
ISBN:	9781303643866

Soft control: Television's relationship to digital micromedia.
Lahey, Michael.

Soft control: Television's relationship to digital micromedia. - 253 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2013.

This dissertation explores the role soft control plays in the relationship between the television industry and short forms of digital media. Following James Beniger and Tizianna Terranova, I define soft control as the purposive movement by the television industry towards shaping audience attention toward predetermined goals through a range of interactions where development happens somewhat autonomously, while being interjected with commands over time. I define such things as media environment design, branding, and data collection as soft control practices. I focus on television as a way to understand how an industry historically patterned around more rigid forms of audience control deals with a digital media environment often cited for its lack of control features. And while there is already a robust discussion on the shifting strategies for the online distribution of shows, there is less of a focus on the increasing importance of shorter forms of digital media to the everyday operation of the television industry. Shorter forms of media include digitally circulated short videos, songs, casual digital games, and even social media, which is itself a platform for the distribution of shorter forms of media. I refer to all these forms of short media as "micromedia" and focus my interest on how various television companies are dealing with media environments saturated with it.

ISBN: 9781303643866Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017408
Speech Communication.

Soft control: Television's relationship to digital micromedia.
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