Television Studies, We Need to Talk about “Binge-Viewing”

2019 ◽  
pp. 152747641987704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Television Audience

This article argues that a crucial task for a renewed investment in television audience research now is to investigate the range of practices currently covered by the label of binge-viewing. Notwithstanding the widespread application of the concept of binge-viewing within both industry commentary and academic research, this article will suggest that the concept has reached the point where it has outlived its usefulness for television studies. Rather than staying with what has become an extremely imprecise term, the argument continues, television studies should turn its attention toward generating more located and nuanced observational accounts of the evolving “cultures of use” within consumer households in order to develop a more accurate and usable set of terms to describe what is actually happening in domestic spaces as people watch television.

Approaching the cultures of use: Netflix, disruption and the audience

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Turner
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Television Audience

This article draws on an empirical research project on cultural consumption in order to respond to particular concerns this project raised about our understanding of the current regimes of consumption for television, or what this article describes as the ‘cultures of use’. While there are rich literatures around many aspects of television consumption, this article argues that there is a gap in our direct knowledge of how individuals and households consume television, across platforms and devices, in domestic spaces. In order to fill that gap and to better understand how television consumption is embedded within people’s everyday lives, television studies may need not only to ask new kinds of questions through its research but also to adapt and modify some of the modes of audience research that marked the beginnings of television audience studies.

scholarly journals Editorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Fickers ◽  
Sonja De Leeuw
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Media History ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Television History ◽  
Multi Media

We are very pleased to present the first issue of a new e-journal in the field of European media history: the Journal of European Television History. It is to be the first peer-reviewed, multi-media and open access e-journal in the field of television studies. The aim of this e-journal is to provide an international platform for outstanding academic research and archival reflection on television as an important part of our European cultural heritage.

A tribute to David Lavery: Television canon, television creativity

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-469
Author(s):  
Rhonda V Wilcox ◽  
Stacey Abbott ◽  
Douglas L Howard
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
The Sopranos ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
The Impact

This article pays tribute to the career of Professor David Lavery and his landmark contribution to television studies. It reflects upon how his edited collections on TV series such as Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Sopranos demonstrated the value of research and, in particular, close textual analysis of individual television series. It considers the impact that the many conferences he co-organised and journals he co-founded had in the creation of collaborative research networks and a sphere of influence known as the ‘Lavery Effect’. It reflects upon his contribution to legitimising blogging and popular media as acceptable platforms for academic research, thus taking scholarship beyond academic audiences and readers. Finally, the essay offers a review of his personal production, addressing his individual contribution to television studies, particularly addressing how his work led the way in considerations of creativity and television authorship and the development of a TV canon.

The Unintended Impact of Academic Research on Asset Returns: The Capital Asset Pricing Model Alpha

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex R. Horenstein
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Capital Asset Pricing Model ◽  
Capital Asset Pricing ◽  
Pricing Model ◽  
Capital Asset ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Asset Pricing Model ◽  
Asset Pricing Anomalies ◽  
The 1960S

This paper explores a channel whereby asset-pricing anomalies can appear as investors alter portfolios according to findings in academic research. In particular, I find that assets with low realized capital asset pricing model (CAPM) alphas outperform those with high alphas, but this finding only appears after the CAPM’s publication in the 1960s. I find evidence consistent with the widespread application of the CAPM generating incentives to tilt portfolios systematically away from low CAPM alpha assets, causing such assets to be undervalued. This paper was accepted by Kay Giesecke, finance.

What's Happening to Audience Research?

1986 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Nightingale
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television

The 1980s seem to be the time for a rekindling of interest in audience research. Marketers, advertisers, film and television production houses, and public funding bodies for film production, all seem unanimous in their calls for more and better research. In such a climate, academic research has a special and complicated role to play, and some difficult choices to confront.

An empirical analysis on Six Sigma implementation in service organisations

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayon Chakraborty ◽  
Tan Kay Chuan
Keyword(s):  
Six Sigma ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Content Type

PurposeSince its introduction by Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma and its philosophy have found widespread application in many manufacturing and service industries. It is felt that there is a need to take stock of the spread of Six Sigma implementation in service organisations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate five main themes which have emerged from literature and to draw on those themes to reflect on wider applicability of Six Sigma in services.Design/methodology/approachThe study involves two exploratory questionnaire surveys. The small‐scale survey is conducted in service organizations in Singapore. The large‐scale survey was web‐based and involved service organisations throughout the world. The objective is to explore and understand the issues highlighted by the service organisations during Six Sigma implementation.FindingsThe findings confirm the inclusion of critical success factors, critical‐to‐quality characteristics, and set of tools and techniques as observed from the literature. In the case of key performance indicators (KPIs), there are different interpretations about them in the literature and also by industry practitioners. Some literature explains KPIs as performance metrics whereas some feel they are key process input or output variables, which is similar to interpretations by practitioners of Six Sigma. The responses of “not relevant” and “unknown to us” as reasons for not implementing Six Sigma show the need for understanding specific requirements of service organizations.Research limitations/implicationsThe limited responses from the authors' surveys restrict the possibility of generalising the findings. Therefore, more extensive survey is required. The three‐phase approach with mixed method used in the overall study has been shown to be useful.Originality/valueAlthough much theoretical description is available about Six Sigma, there has been limited rigorous academic research on it. This gap is far more pronounced about Six Sigma implementation in service organizations, where the theory is not yet mature. Identifying this need, the paper contributes, by empirical research through surveys, to understand the issues involving Six Sigma implementation in service organizations.

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