Social TV: The Future of Television in the Internet Age
Television's influence on culture and society has been widely acknowledged for many years. On the other hand, with the diffusion of the web and of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, used in concert with television, the TV experience has become much more interactive and it is now impossible not to acknowledge that television has also become a driving force for social interaction. Furthermore, the parallel diffusion of internet videos and user generated content, fostered by YouTube in particular, has provided the population with a different approach to media and television in particular: consumers have also become producers. This work analyzes how the different technological improvements have changed the definition of television. Special attention is given to how Facebook and Twitter have influenced some of TV's fundamental properties such as liveness, character-centric storylines and flow and to what the YouTube phenomena means for television. The thesis concludes with a forecast about television's future, which confirms the main argument of this thesis: television is increasingly social. Thesis Supervisor: Michael Cusumano Title: SMR Distinguished Professor of Management
Social Media and TV: A Preliminary Review of Interaction
This paper review the role of social media and social networks sites in promoting social TV as a new emerging platform for people who tend to socialize around TV shows and programmes . Social media which are used in connection with television, have made TV watching experience much more interactive and social than before. Thanks to social media and social networks, television has gradually become a driving force for social interaction among the viewers. On social TV platform, people use social media networks to be more interactive in their online communications including sharing, posting comments, putting like and dislikes under TV related posts, or tagging and recommending  certain TV shows to their friends and families via social media platform. All these facilities, innovations and activities can be taken into consideration as a new emerging television viewing habit. In this article researchers evaluated different opportunities and possibilities that social media offer to TV content creators and broadcasters as well as TV users and viewers. The findings of paper indicate that social media facilitate television viewer to socialize and interact around TV content in deferent conditions.  Keywords: Interaction, social media, social TV, television
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.