Television-Mediated Conversation: Coherence in Italian iTV SMS Chat

Author

Zelenkauskaite, Asta ; Herring, Susan C.

Author_Institution

Indiana Univ., Bloomington

fYear

2008

fDate

7-10 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

145

Abstract

Text messaging on interactive television in Italy is a media convergence phenomenon involving short message service, traditional television, and the World Wide Web. This study investigates the frequency and coherence of viewer-to-viewer textual exchanges on an Italian iTV SMS program, employing methods of interaction analysis and the visualization tool VisualDTA to represent interactional coherence. The findings show that despite numerous factors that discourage it, some users more-or-less successfully adapt the medium to engage in interpersonal exchanges. Design recommendations are advanced for fostering more coherent viewer-to-viewer interaction via iTV SMS.

Keywords

Internet; electronic messaging; interactive television; Italian iTV SMS chat; Italy; VisualDTA; World Wide Web; interactional coherence; media convergence phenomenon; television mediated conversation; text messaging; viewer-to-viewer interaction; Computer mediated communication; Convergence; Frequency; GSM; Internet; Message service; Mobile computing; TV broadcasting; Visualization; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2008.425

Filename

4438848