A while back, I wrote a newsletter about “liveness” in media—how the synchronous, collective experience of watching something in real time, shared by millions of viewers across the country or around the world, has traditionally corresponded to our definition of what “TV” is. Now, of course, television is the most atomized and asynchronous form of mass media—however many people watch a given Netflix show, they aren’t watching together at the same time, and even if they were, they wouldn’t know. The remaining exceptions to this transformation of TV include sporting events and prestige shows like
#101: Telephasic Workshop
#101: Telephasic Workshop
#101: Telephasic Workshop
A while back, I wrote a newsletter about “liveness” in media—how the synchronous, collective experience of watching something in real time, shared by millions of viewers across the country or around the world, has traditionally corresponded to our definition of what “TV” is. Now, of course, television is the most atomized and asynchronous form of mass media—however many people watch a given Netflix show, they aren’t watching together at the same time, and even if they were, they wouldn’t know. The remaining exceptions to this transformation of TV include sporting events and prestige shows like