Media Musings Blog Archive TV tweets

Media Musings Blog Archive TV tweets First television. Then Twitter. Now Television and Twitter? Just what is this multimedia mix up all about? A society arguably addicted to the see all, know all social media landscape, the tiresome television has adopted Twitter in a last ditch attempt to liven up the living room screen. Calling upon lazy loungers to log in and live tweet their thoughts in a zealous http://www.menspoloralphlaurenoutlet.com/ effort to generate a relatively unprecedented interactivity seems to me rather hollow and frankly, a little desperate. Australian teens get giddy over The Voice judge, Joel Madden. Screenshot by Eryn Crowl The newest merging of digital media settling into the television domain seems like a strenuous polo ralph lauren outlet stretch. What used to be an intelligently mind crafted integration onto ABC's Q we now see an army of teens worshipping Joel Madden's "hotness", so you have to ask yourself, how social does TV really need to be? The Twitter/TV success story that is Q began in mens polo shirts 2009, when politically savvy intellectuals took to live tweeting on a Monday night, hash tagging that popular qanda. But as more live programs begin to mesh Twitter and television, all I'm really seeing is a mis information overload. The experimentation of newer media on the previously fixed 'idiot box' is a grandiose gesture to get the momentum going on television conversation again. It's the lack of the social environment which television once had that has lead to the employment of social media instruments to get the people talking again. I guess TV stations miss the clichd water cooler 'convos' going down and want to transform this onto a bigger, better platform. ABC Q succeeds in the integration of Twitter and television. Photo courtesy deanog via Flickr And yes I admit, I do plead guilty to using multiple media devices polo shirts ralph lauren when watching TV but together? Meh, I don't know. If it was a feature I had the power to switch off, then sure, bonus material. Many, I argue, still trying to figure out what the hell a hash tag is. But I will put my opinions aside and say that while I think Twitter is cheapening programs by plaguing our screens with attention craving rubbish (this argument is entirely valid when watching an episode of The Voice), I do reluctantly concur that it has the potential to be a winner on live TV. I agree with this post. While social networking on television has the ability to contribute to the discussion or the actions happening onscreen, many TV shows ulitise Twitter or Facebook in such an incorrect and annoying matter.