Social TV and audience engagement: investigating the relationship between Facebook engagement and TV performance of <i>The Voice</i> (USA)

Tsai, Hsin-yi Sandy; Lin, Hui-Fei

doi:10.1108/oir-06-2021-0293

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“…In other words, it facilitates a bottom-up meaning-making of the event rather than the top-down orchestration of it, where media audiences become part of constructing media events by second-screening. It is not surprising, then, that second-screening is sometimes referred to as “social TV” or “connected viewing”, where people can watch television separately while conversing in real time with each other on social media (Tsai and Lin, 2023).…”

Section: Media Events and Second Screeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media events in an age of “cross-media”: a smartphone diary app study

Lev-On,

Lowenstein-Barkai

2023

OIR

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PurposeAiming to explore how audience consume and produce media events in the digital, distributed and social era we live in, the paper analyzes the viewing patterns of video news items during a media event (the week of Donald Trump's presidential visit to Israel, the first to a country outside the US), compared to a parallel comparable “ordinary” period (two weeks later, in which no inordinacy events occurred). The comparison focused on simultaneous activities of audiences engaged with the event, with either related (i.e. second screening) or unrelated (i.e. media multitasking).Design/methodology/approachThe research is a diary study based on a dedicated mobile app in which respondents reported their news-related behavior during two periods: a media event period and comparable “ordinary” period.FindingsParticipants reported watching significantly more news video items in the first day of the media event week compared to the first day of the “ordinary” week. More than half of the viewing reports of the media event were not on TV. In the media event week, there were significantly higher percentages of viewing reports on smartphones/computers and significantly higher percentages of second-screening reports.Originality/valueThis is the first study that empirically explores the viewing patterns of video news items during a media event, compared to an “ordinary” period, focusing on media second screening of audiences engaged with the event. This comparison may reveal whether (1) media events still retain their centrality in a multi-screen era and (2) the role of the internet and online social media in the experience of media events.

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Section: Media Events and Second Screeningmentioning

confidence: 99%