Webisodes: Examining the Making of an Emergent Internet Medium

For decades, film, video, and television have been entertaining a global audience and delivering important information or news. However, in recent years the Internet added a novel distribution channel for film, bypassing established routes like TV broadcasts and thus, changing the way TV and film are consumed. These scripted episodic and sometimes experimental videos for the web are often labeled as webisodes. While the distribution of webisodes is mainly characterized by on-demand online streaming the act of creating this novel format is highly diverse, highly cooperative and draws heavily on information technology. This work in progress paper is a first step to better understand this community. To this end, we recruited and interviewed eight persons, four producers of traditional films and four producers of webisodes. From our data we derived a set of observations and claims that we use for discussion and future research.

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Roman Ganhör

Florian Güldenpfennig

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 1-4

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[0001]TU Wien, Multidisciplinary Design Group

Favoritenstraβe 9-11, Vienna, Austria

[0002]TU Wien, HCI Group

Argentinierstraβe 8, Vienna, Austria

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.27

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

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Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] S. Benford 2012 T. Supporting traditional music-making: designing for situated discretion In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2012 127 136

[2] C. BogdanJ. Bowers 2007 Tuning in: Challenging design for communities through a field study of radio amateurs In Communities and Technologies, Springer London 439 461

[3] V. BraunV. Clarke 2006 Using thematic analysis in psychology Qualitative research in psychology 3 2 77 101

[4] Cisco Corporation 2013 Cisco Visual Networking: Forecast and methodology, 2014-2019 white paper http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/ip-ngn-ip-next-generation-network/white_paper_c11-481360.html

[5] D. J. Deveau 2010 Cultural Production and the Digital Humour Economy resource, 120 http://daniellejdeveau.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cultural-Production-and-the-Digital-Humour-Economy.pdf

[6] L. HaR. Ganahl 2013 Emerging global medium. Webcasting Worldwide: Business Models of an Emerging Global Medium 357

[7] D. Kirk et.al 2007 Understanding videowork In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems ACM Press 61 70

[8] S. J. LiebowitzA. Zentner 2012 Clash of the Titans: Does Internet use reduce television viewing? Review of Economics and Statistics 94 1 234 245

[9] P. M. Markey 2000 Bystander intervention in computer-mediated communication Computers in Human Behavior 16 2 183 188

[10] G. M. OlsonJ. S. Olson 2000 Distance matters Human-computer interaction 15 2 139 178

[11] L. M. PeirceT. Tang 2012 Refashioning television: Business opportunities and challenges of webisodes International Journal of Business and Social Science 3 13

[12] J. Russel 2013 Netflix becomes first online TV firm to win a primetime Emmy http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/09/23/netflix-becomes-first-online-tv-firm-to-win-a-prime-time-emmy/#!uiwkC

[13] A. C. RoibásR. Sala 2007 Beyond mobile TV: understanding how mobile interactive systems enable users to become digital producers In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Berlin Heidelberg 801 810

[14] M. D. RyanG. Hearn 2010 Next-Generation ‘Filmmaking’: New Markets, New Methods and New Business Models Media International Australia 136 1 133 145

[15] J. P. Telotte 2008 The essential science fiction television reader University Press of Kentucky Journal

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