Screen Choice: The Relations, Interactions and Articulations of Watching Film

People watch films on televisions, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and cinema screens. As technologies, each of these screen types provide different opportunities to select particular films, choose when where them. This raises questions about how why people screens the viewing experiences they gain from doing so. To address questions, we draw 200 semi-structured interviews with film audience members in England. We use Livingstone’s (1998, 2013) notion interactions relations Hartmann’s (2006) a ‘triple articulation’ media approach as technologies that carry range films. Here, are understood texts, medium provides specific temporal spatial contexts. find tend to: (1) at cinema, either socialise or feel part an temporary auditorium-based community – whilst immersing within text; (2) television sets living-room relax socialise; (3) laptops tablets bedroom for personalised engagement; (4) via smartphones convenience pass time away home. Overall, argue people’s film-watching is embedded contexts offer watching times places. In this, configure various aspects their environments seek out experiences.