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afwriter
5/27/2017 11:44:23 PM
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Re: Friends
They definitely aren't going anywhere in my lifetime. I have a TV in almost every room in my house, but that is because I write about TV and I travel from room to room a lot.
afwriter
5/27/2017 11:48:13 PM
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Re: Friends
There are always going to be things that are just better to watch on the television. What we will see (already seeing?) is TVs continuing to get bigger and clearer to directly oppose smaller screens.
JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 6:18:09 PM
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Re: Friends
Elizabeth,
Putting on my furniture history hat (couple courses in that while I was studying theatre design) and not looking up any sources for 20 year old information, I seem to remember that in most cultures with furniture the furniture is pointed at something -- the hearth, a window or sliding doors, the household shrine, but something. Apparently sitting together and all looking the same way is pretty basic to humans living together.
That also leads to the thought that there's at least one reason why VR will probably never dominate a room in the house the way that TVs, cabinet radios, pianos, fireplaces, etc. have in prior ages: you need something with a definite location that other people can be seen to be watching.
Michelle
5/29/2017 6:46:03 PM
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Re: Friends
@John That's really interesting. Now it's time for us to all look at our computer screens to learn a little more about this sitting and staring at the same thing as a group...
JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 7:27:53 PM
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Re: Friends
Michelle,
I sometimes wonder if that isn't one of the hidden strengths of lecture format in school, which almost everyone professes to hate, and yet which never seems to go away or even really diminish. Perhaps "everyone face Grandpa/ma and s/he will tell us the lore" is in our genes, and getting into that arrangement is a signal that turns on our attention. (Or our sleep response, if I may judge by what my own lectures did to students ...)
JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 7:35:22 PM
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JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 7:37:46 PM
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Re: US Smartphone Penetration Hits 80%, but Still Lags TV
Ariella, Mike Pouraryan,
In another sense, of course, the culture as a whole and the communications industry in particular is always setting what streams in the background. That's going to be another interesting aspect of tv you can talk back to, I suspect.
mpouraryan
5/29/2017 7:46:53 PM
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Re: US Smartphone Penetration Hits 80%, but Still Lags TV
we've got elements of it as we are able to talk to our FireTV to decide what we will watch and when Cortana talks back to us--elements of it are arleady there--exciting..and escary at the same time!!
Onward to June...may we be ever so excited ever more!!
Michelle
5/29/2017 8:11:27 PM
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Re: Friends
"Hidden strengths" eh? Have you discussed your theory with other instructors? You might be onto something. We are stuck (or appear to be) on the lecture format.
dcawrey
5/30/2017 12:53:36 PM
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Re: Friends
Interesting read.
What I'd like to know more about is the interaction between smartphones and television. It certainly is having a big impact on how we all view media, but I'm not sure there is any good data out there about it.
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