If Content is King, Context is its Crown

Authors

  • Pelle Snickars National Library of Sweden, Box 5039, 10241 Stockholm

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2012.jethc006

Keywords:

search modalities, computation, YouTube, digital TV, media archive, televisual data, Google

Abstract

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.

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Published

2012-02-21

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012): Making Sense of Digital Sources

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Articles

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