Oh wow, I remember following Cory way back in the day - I think I even contributed something to TV Surveillance. Thank you for the interview! I'm really looking forward to checking out this book. [Funnily enough, my hold on Television's Spatial Capital arrived at my library, so I'm generally looking forward to a few weeks of Academic TV …
Oh wow, I remember following Cory way back in the day - I think I even contributed something to TV Surveillance. Thank you for the interview! I'm really looking forward to checking out this book. [Funnily enough, my hold on Television's Spatial Capital arrived at my library, so I'm generally looking forward to a few weeks of Academic TV Books].
Otherwise, I don't want to rehash my previous comments on this blog about engaging in small dedicated spaces and communities (like this Substack - which, more often than not, I find myself commenting on a week or two late...) but that's really where my 'live' reactions go at this point.
I'm in a paid Slack for the (former) Storm/LOST podcast, where folks thread their reactions (to avoid spoilers) to anything and everything (e.g., movies or shows, in real time or retrospective thoughts) in a #now-watching channel. Of course, these channels are all super linear and disappear after the whole Slack hits 10K messages, so everything feels even more ephemeral. I'm also in a free Discord (also LOST-related) where we watch a show together 'live' weekly, but that isn't tied to new appointment viewing. We're watching Netflix's Dark (a show that ended in 2021) and did Twin Peaks earlier this year.
I do think certain kinds of semi-oldschool engagement is colliding with newer social media spaces (RuPaul's Drag Race still uses hashtags on the show pretty liberally, which I imagine is more for IG than Twitter). And when something drops for binging, my partner will let me know we need to finish New Show X ASAP to avoid an increasing amount of spoilers filtering into her awareness through Reels.
I don't really know where that leaves me. While I have little interest in more GOT content, I am kind of looking forward to HotD if only because I am excited about being there at 9PM on a Sunday when (presumably) it will air for everyone; maybe I'll even Live Tweet about it!
Hi John! Hope you're well. These Slack and Discord examples are *awesome* and a great way to think about bringing some of the Social TV ideas into this generation. I'm in a few that are sports-related and it's a similar thing where people are sending live reactions to games, often times different ones happening simultaneously, that it's both fun and dizzying to try to keep track of what's going on.
I love this idea of watching a show together live via a platform like this. Care to share the Discord link?! 🤓
Great to hear from you! I recently finished up my PhD in neuroscience focused on media about neurodevelopmental disabilities; I've always felt that a reason I went down this path is because of some combo of theorizing too much about LOST online and most of 2009-2013 TV Twitter/Academic TV Twitter :). So, thanks for that! Hope you're well too.
Otherwise, one area where this kind of social engagement is happening a lot too is through Patreon-driven Discord (and Slack) communities (e.g., for podcasts like Buffering The Vampire Slayer). And happy to share the Discord link: https://discord.gg/DfaPWcss
Oh wow, I remember following Cory way back in the day - I think I even contributed something to TV Surveillance. Thank you for the interview! I'm really looking forward to checking out this book. [Funnily enough, my hold on Television's Spatial Capital arrived at my library, so I'm generally looking forward to a few weeks of Academic TV Books].
Otherwise, I don't want to rehash my previous comments on this blog about engaging in small dedicated spaces and communities (like this Substack - which, more often than not, I find myself commenting on a week or two late...) but that's really where my 'live' reactions go at this point.
I'm in a paid Slack for the (former) Storm/LOST podcast, where folks thread their reactions (to avoid spoilers) to anything and everything (e.g., movies or shows, in real time or retrospective thoughts) in a #now-watching channel. Of course, these channels are all super linear and disappear after the whole Slack hits 10K messages, so everything feels even more ephemeral. I'm also in a free Discord (also LOST-related) where we watch a show together 'live' weekly, but that isn't tied to new appointment viewing. We're watching Netflix's Dark (a show that ended in 2021) and did Twin Peaks earlier this year.
I do think certain kinds of semi-oldschool engagement is colliding with newer social media spaces (RuPaul's Drag Race still uses hashtags on the show pretty liberally, which I imagine is more for IG than Twitter). And when something drops for binging, my partner will let me know we need to finish New Show X ASAP to avoid an increasing amount of spoilers filtering into her awareness through Reels.
I don't really know where that leaves me. While I have little interest in more GOT content, I am kind of looking forward to HotD if only because I am excited about being there at 9PM on a Sunday when (presumably) it will air for everyone; maybe I'll even Live Tweet about it!
Hi John! Hope you're well. These Slack and Discord examples are *awesome* and a great way to think about bringing some of the Social TV ideas into this generation. I'm in a few that are sports-related and it's a similar thing where people are sending live reactions to games, often times different ones happening simultaneously, that it's both fun and dizzying to try to keep track of what's going on.
I love this idea of watching a show together live via a platform like this. Care to share the Discord link?! 🤓
Great to hear from you! I recently finished up my PhD in neuroscience focused on media about neurodevelopmental disabilities; I've always felt that a reason I went down this path is because of some combo of theorizing too much about LOST online and most of 2009-2013 TV Twitter/Academic TV Twitter :). So, thanks for that! Hope you're well too.
Otherwise, one area where this kind of social engagement is happening a lot too is through Patreon-driven Discord (and Slack) communities (e.g., for podcasts like Buffering The Vampire Slayer). And happy to share the Discord link: https://discord.gg/DfaPWcss
I also wouldn't be a media professor without Lost. I suspect that are dozens of us!!
Thanks for the link. I'll have to check it out!