Title:	TELEVISION CONTENTS & NOMADIC MOBILITY – WHAT SOCIAL FUTURE?
Author(s):	Luis Miguel Pato
ISBN:	978-972-8924-55-3
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2008
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Convergence, Interactive Television, Nomadic Contents, Social Future. Economy
Type:	Poster/Demonstration
First Page:	623
Last Page:	625
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	When we think about the beginning of television, we can conclude that the experiences of Alexandra Palace were just the trigger for the beginning of something that not even the over-whelming innovations that, at the time, changed the fate of men like: Sir John Reith who couldn’t see that television would become such a huge medium. When we talk about Interactive Television it’s possible to see during a long course of time (since the first interactive tv show in the world Winky Dink & You – CBS USA) there haven’t been many changes but now when we talk about a mobile society and interactive contents we can see, an ever growing, market developing on a daily basis. Like Don Tapscott said, on his book Wikinomics,, today we live a Participation Era where we, besides consuming contents in a nomadic behavior, act as participants in a global quest for knowledge. Due to this aspect, today we se concentrations of all the technological techniques that happen in the world converged in nomadic multimedia platforms – mobile communications etc. This paper’s goal is to observe how these changes have society demand a bigger variety of contents and see how know when we have the power as viewers and consumers of a new television content era can we finally shape as we wish – like the theoretician Eric Hoffer once said.
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