Everything Is Television
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Everything Is Television
But digital media hasn’t become the antidote to television. Digital media, empowered by the serum of algorithmic feeds, has become super-television: more images, more videos, more isolation.
Everything Is Television
n his 1974 book Television: Technology and Cultural Form , Raymond Williams wrote that “in all communications systems before [television], the essential items were discrete.” That is, a book is bound and finite, existing on its own terms. A play is performed in a particular theater at a set hour. Williams argued that television shifted culture from... See more
Everything Is Television
In the last decade, social media has become less about social networking and more about replacing or supplementing big-screen TV time with a smaller-screen medium that serves the same functions. [Source: John Burn-Murdoch at the FT]
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached a kind of settled end state, in which TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.
Everything Is Television
In the last decade, social media has become less about social networking and more about replacing or supplementing big-screen TV time with a smaller-screen medium that serves the same functions. [Source: John Burn-Murdoch at the FT]
When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video.