Introduction: Mapping connections / Jennifer Holt and Kevin Sanson -- Part I. Industry structures and strategies : Regulating connected viewing: media pipelines and cloud policy / Jennifer Holt -- Second-screen theory: from the democratic surround to the digital enclosure / Hye Jin Lee and Mark Andrejevic -- Windows into the digital world: distributor strategies and consumer choice in an era of connected viewing / Elissa Nelson -- The personal media collection in an era of connected viewing / Gregory Steirer -- Part II. Technology and platforms : Beyond piracy: understanding digital markets / Patrick Vonderau -- Transparent intermediaries: building the infrastructures of connected viewing / Joshua Braun -- American media and China's blended public sphere / Aynne Kokas -- Online distribution of film and television in the UK: behavior, taste, and value / Elizabeth Evans and Paul McDonald -- Part III. Content and engagement : Connected viewing, connected capital: fostering gameplay across screens / Matthew Thomas Payne -- Connected viewing on the second screen: the limitations of the living room / Ethan Tussey -- Streaming U: college students and connected viewing / Chuck Tryon and Max Dawson -- The contours of on-demand viewing / Sharon Strover and William Moner.
Summary:
As patterns of media use become more integrated with mobile technologies and multiple screens, a new mode of viewer engagement has emerged in the form of connected viewing, which allows for an array of new relationships between audiences and media texts in the digital space. This exciting new collection brings together twelve original essays that critically engage with the socially-networked, multi-platform, and cloud-based world of today, examining the connected viewing phenomenon across television, film, video games, and social media. The result is a wide-ranging analysis of shifting business models, policy matters, technology infrastructure, new forms of user engagement, and other key trends affecting screen media in the digital era. This book contextualizes the dramatic transformations taking place across both media industries and national contexts, and offers a diverse set of methods and perspectives for studying this critical moment in media culture.-- Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.