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In this course we will examine television distribution asking the question "how is digital technology changing they way television fits into society." The course will take a systemic look at the various ways television is currently distributed with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies that place television in a social context. The classwork for the course will be team and project focused, culminating in each team developing a prototype of a new social TV application. We will explore the multiple facets of the social TV experience from video technology fundamentals and challenges, to user interfaces, content consumption and business cases.

Social TV is a huge buzzword in the TV world these days. Basically, it refers to the ways people are using social media in conjunction with their TV viewing. That might refer to something as simple as checking your Twitter feed on your phone while watching a political debate. It might also include joining a social network oriented around media discovery, like GetGlue, or Miso, where you can find out what your friends think of shows, or be notified when they are watching something. It had us wondering what impact Social TV will have on the way programmers design shows, and whether we’re returning to gathering in the living room watching I Love Lucy, only virtually. Marie-Jose Montpetit is a research scientist at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, where she researches putting video on multiple devices and combining it with social networking components.

Social Television is a general term for technology that supports communication and social interaction in either the context of watching television, or related to TV content. It also includes the study of television-related social behavior, devices and networks. Social television systems can for example integrate voice communication, text chat, presence and context awareness, TV recommendations, ratings, or video-conferencing with the TV content either directly on the screen or by using ancillary devices. Social television is very active area of research and development that is also generating new services as TV operators and content producers are looking for new sources of revenue. While a number of existing social television systems are still at a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions are available commercially. White-labeled social TV platforms have also emerged (such as Visiware's PlayAlong, LiveHive Systems and Ex Machina's PlayToTV) which allow TV networks and operators to offer branded social TV applications. On the ratings front, companies such as SocialGuide, Bluefin Labs, Networked Insights and TrendrrTV have emerged to measure the social media activities tied to specific TV telecasts.[1] In essence, these new companies seek to serve as the Nielsen Ratings of the social televisions space.

Aujourd’hui, la stratégie mondiale de Condé Nast c’est de dire, nous sommes des « brand builders » et pas un groupe de presse mais un groupe multimédia de media.

MERI Media is a new company with a new approach to digital publishing. Having developed a proprietary software system for publishing digital magazines, advertisements and catalogues on the iPad and other touch-screen devices, MERI Media's mission is to match this software development with strong creative direction that ensures high-impact, distinctive and efficient solutions across the junctures of e-commerce, contract publishing and advertising for brands and media organisations.

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Instead of enabling media queries in the browsers that don’t support them, like Internet Explorer 6–8, I chose to simply serve them the Narrow Layout, slightly enhanced with Paul Irish’s IE conditional classes.

Social Sharing buttons can be brutal on load time (Facebook I’m looking at you) and with speed being a crucial factor in building a mobile version of your site, it can be a pain to try and maintain all those scripts without slowing down the site in the process. Loading Facebook, Twitter, Google’s +1 button, and other sharing buttons for a mobile site isn’t ideal.

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Photopoll is a fast, intuitive and fun way to ask connected friends for their feedback. The idea behind this iOS application is very simple: create quick polls for friends to comment with the help of images. 60% of US social network users are at least somewhat likely to take action when a friend posts something about a product, service, company or brand on a social media site*. As more consumers access social media on the go, their in-store shopping decisions will be affected by these same influential brand-related discussions. *ROI Research 2011 Photopoll is the tool to create, nourish and enhance these conversations by bringing the traditional polling experience to the next level thus positioning itself as the easiest social decision tool for connected consumers.