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them so conducive to iTV programming. Barry Schuler, President of AOL’s Interactive<br />

Services, notes that “applications like e-mail, instant messaging and other ways people<br />

can be with each other can help tie a home experience with a community experience.<br />

That’s what will make TV explode into an active medium from a passive medium over<br />

the next decade” (quoted in Swann, 2000).<br />

Phillip Swann argues that television has always been conducive to creating<br />

community: “One of the great myths of watching television is that it’s often a solitary<br />

experience… But after watching a particularly good show, the TV viewer is eager to<br />

share his thoughts with others. It’s part of the experience. By talking with another person,<br />

the viewer can relive the positive emotions he or she felt during the show… most times,<br />

people have come together to simply chat about a funny moment in a favorite sitcom or<br />

perhaps some silly remark made by a network anchor during the evening news. Because<br />

we saw it on television, we saw it together” (Swann, 2000). Today, that process can occur<br />

in real time with the networked, participatory affordances of the digital medium.<br />

The process of convening an audience through voting, typically through mobile<br />

platforms or via the Web, works well particularly when the user’s action is reinforced<br />

through near-instant feedback. Questions, however, must reinforce the moment onscreen.<br />

For example, as illustrated by Figure 5.15, ABC’s The View His & Her Body Test<br />

allowed their viewers to partake in a live health quiz relevant to the viewer’s knowledge<br />

about male and female health issues.<br />

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