Why do we use the term “Web Television?”
Why do we use the term “Web Television?” Television is already its own medium. No one calls the Film medium “Theatrical Television.” TV isn’t “Visual Radio.”
Are we short-changing ourselves from the beginning by describing a burgeoning new medium as nothing more than a variation on an existing one?
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ronen answered:
“radio play”. Stupids use the term web tv because that’s all they’re making.
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lizlet answered:
I say web series or online video. WebTV is that thing where people hooked up keyboards to their TVs and was dumb.
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chriscantwell answered:
what about CyberTown Follies
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elizabayne liked this
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ladflow answered:
very good point.
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stevewoolf answered:
well, i think the term came about to help it reach the mainstream. something digestible, etc. but a show is a show, regardless of semantics.
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mike-ambs liked this
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oaksandroses answered:
who does this nonsense? that’s some gay ass shit there. fuck that. i’m going to make some miniature iced cakes. i mean cupcakes.
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evanwalsh answered:
Yes. Just call it “web video”
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spiegelman answered:
Well, they do call television “home theater,” so …
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un answered:
I don’t use that term. It is ‘vid’. You are free to use that term now. No cost. No attribution. :-D
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atencio answered:
In a word, yes. The sooner people stop trying to fit “new media” (another term I loathe) into the conventions of “old media,” the better.
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