Johnson, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-9809-4444 (2020) The appisation of television: TV apps, discoverability and the software, device and platform ecologies of the internet era. Critical Studies in Television, 15 (2). pp. 165-182. ISSN 1749-6020
Abstract
This article examines the appisation of television: the emergence of apps as a mainstream means of delivering television services/content through smart TVs, connected devices, smartphones and tablets. Exploring the interrelationships between TV content, discovery and aggregator apps, the article demonstrates how content/software providers, device manufacturers and infrastructural platforms vie to control our access to, and experience of, television in a market underpinned by datafication, commodification and selection. This control is enacted within a multidimensional software, device and platform ecology where discoverability is central because it determines which content, services and apps are most prominent, accessible and easy to find.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Apps, internet television, discoverability, prominence, software, platform |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2023 12:15 |
Last Modified: | 10 Aug 2023 10:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1749602020911823 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202238 |