"I've been manipulated!":designing second screen experiences for critical viewing of reality TV

Tom Feltwell; Gavin Wood; Phillip Brooker; Kiel Long; Tom Schofield; Ioannis Petridis; Julie Barnett; John Vines; Shaun Lawson

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025833

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"I've been manipulated!":designing second screen experiences for critical viewing of reality TV

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"I've been manipulated!":designing second screen experiences for critical viewing of reality TV

Tom Feltwell, Gavin Wood, Phillip Brooker, Kiel Long, Tom Schofield, Ioannis Petridis, Julie Barnett, John Vines and Shaun Lawson

CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.2252-2263

2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Denver, Colorado, USA, 06/05/2017–11/05/2017)

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025833

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Abstract

The recent proliferation of a reality TV genre that focusses on welfare recipients has led to concerns that prime-time media experiences are exacerbating misconceptions, and stifling critical debate, around major societal issues such as welfare reform and poverty. Motivated by arguments that 'second screening' practices offer opportunities to engage viewers with issues of political concern, we describe the design and evaluation of two smartphone apps that facilitate and promote more critical live-viewing of reality TV. Our apps, Spotting Guide and Moral Compass, encourage users to identify, categorise, tag and filter patterns and tropes within reality TV, as well as reinterpret social media posts associated with their broadcast. We show that such interactions encourage critical thinking around typical editing and production techniques and foster co-discussion and reflection amongst viewers. We discuss, more broadly, how these interactions encourage users to identify the wider consequences and framings of reality TV, and offer implications and considerations for design that provokes criticality and reflection in second screening contexts.

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Title: "I've been manipulated!":designing second screen experiences for critical viewing of reality TV
Authors/Creators: Tom Feltwell
Gavin Wood
Phillip Brooker
Kiel Long
Tom Schofield
Ioannis Petridis
Julie Barnett
John Vines
Shaun Lawson
Publication Details: CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.2252-2263
Conference: 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Denver, Colorado, USA, 06/05/2017–11/05/2017)
Publisher: ACM Digital Library, Association for Computing Machinery; Denver, CO, USA; New York, NY, USA
Identifiers: 991005634024107891
Copyright: Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.
Murdoch Affiliation: School of Media and Communication
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding

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