"Hack the Debate" - Twitter and CurrentTV join together
Some of you may already be aware of this. For all the debates in the US presidential election this month, CurrentTV (the network founded by former Vice President Al Gore) has collaborated with Twitter.com to run a program called "Hack the Debate." Essentially what happens is CurrentTV selects messages being posted to their Twitter channel/page and runs those messages on the bottom of the tv screen during the debates. It's a little like Pop Up Video for politics, for those who remember that show. Current and Twitter are both promoting this as being the first time this has ever been done, running live "tweets" over a tv broadcast. I'm sure it's the first time it's been done with Twitter, but running text messages over a tv broadcast has been done before, I'm pretty sure. I've participated in both of these so far. There's a severe lag between what's posted to Twitter and what appears on the television screen, leading to some unintended humor and of course the majority of the actual messages on Twitter don't appear on the television screen (the network is also filtering out profanity, etc.). At first there wasn't much interaction between people posting on the Twitter channel but during the VP debate you started to see more messages being aimed at other people posting, so who knows what will happen during these last 2 debates. http://current.com/topics/88834922_hack_the_debate PS - See some of you in Austin this week, I hope! Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College
Hi Stephanie and other Twitter-ers -- What's your username? Mine is deanya, and one of my tweets made it onto the tube during the first presidential debate. :-) Deanya Lattimore http://www.deanya.com Quoting "Tuszynski, Stephanie" <stuszyns@bethanywv.edu>:
Some of you may already be aware of this.
For all the debates in the US presidential election this month, CurrentTV (the network founded by former Vice President Al Gore) has collaborated with Twitter.com to run a program called "Hack the Debate." Essentially what happens is CurrentTV selects messages being posted to their Twitter channel/page and runs those messages on the bottom of the tv screen during the debates.
It's a little like Pop Up Video for politics, for those who remember that show.
Current and Twitter are both promoting this as being the first time this has ever been done, running live "tweets" over a tv broadcast. I'm sure it's the first time it's been done with Twitter, but running text messages over a tv broadcast has been done before, I'm pretty sure.
I've participated in both of these so far. There's a severe lag between what's posted to Twitter and what appears on the television screen, leading to some unintended humor and of course the majority of the actual messages on Twitter don't appear on the television screen (the network is also filtering out profanity, etc.). At first there wasn't much interaction between people posting on the Twitter channel but during the VP debate you started to see more messages being aimed at other people posting, so who knows what will happen during these last 2 debates.
http://current.com/topics/88834922_hack_the_debate
PS - See some of you in Austin this week, I hope!
Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College
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Den 6. okt.. 2008 kl. 17.11 skrev Tuszynski, Stephanie:
Current and Twitter are both promoting this as being the first time this has ever been done, running live "tweets" over a tv broadcast. I'm sure it's the first time it's been done with Twitter, but running text messages over a tv broadcast has been done before, I'm pretty sure.
SMS-es over TV debates has been common in Norwegian TV for five years now, possibly more. It is one of the phenomena Gunn Enli wrote about it in her 2007 Ph.D. thesis "The Participatory Turn in Broadcast Television". See also: Enli, Gunn. "Gatekeeping in the New media Age: A case Study of the Selection of Text-Messages in a Current Affairs Programme". Javnost - The Public 2007 ;Volume 14.(2) s. 47-63 --anders -- Anders Fagerjord, dr. art. Associate professor, Department of Media and Communcation, Unversity of Oslo P.O. Box 1093 Blindern N-0317 OSLO Norway http://www.media.uio.no http://fagerjord.no
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