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The Twenty-First Century Television: Interactive, Participatory and Social

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Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 1

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The process of digitalization has detached television content from the television screen with a tendency of media convergence. In the twenty-first century social mobile media and the Internet with the help of different mobile devices have gained more and more ground in TV-production. In this chapter the media convergence(s) taken place around television, acting as a central cluster, is studied through the aspect of second screens. It concentrates on the convergence of twenty-first century’s television and mobile devices that are acting as second screens in facilitating TV watching experience.

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    Internet Wayback Machine: http://archive.org/web/web.php

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    Interactive voice response is a phone technology that allows a computer to detect voice and touch tones using a normal phone call.

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    This was seen from the internet inquiry (https://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id = 210451&cid = 20911803) answers.

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    See page at: The Emmerdale weplatform from the year 2009: http://web.archive.org/web/20090817111252/http://www.mtv3.fi/emmerdale/

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    Formats that operate on several platforms e.g., internet, mobile phones, TV being the central cluster.

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    A smart TV describes a trend of integration of the Internet and Web 2.0 features into television sets and set-top boxes, as well as the technological convergence between computers and these television sets/set-top boxes.

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Tuomi, P. (2016). The Twenty-First Century Television: Interactive, Participatory and Social. In: Lugmayr, A., Dal Zotto, C. (eds) Media Convergence Handbook - Vol. 1. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54484-2_14

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