If Content is King, Context is its Crown

The future of television—if former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has his way—will use computational modes to attract viewers, structure results, contextual queries and/or evolving viewing patterns within an emerging televisual datasca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snickars, Pelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 2012-02-01
Series:VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
Online Access:https://www.viewjournal.eu/article/10.18146/2213-0969.2012.jethc006/
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Summary:The future of television—if former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has his way—will use computational modes to attract viewers, structure results, contextual queries and/or evolving viewing patterns within an emerging televisual datascape. Departing from Schmidt's recent MacTaggart lecture this article tries to track the coded consequences of TV as data, not the least from an audiovisual heritage perspective.
ISSN:2213-0969