Television binge viewing is a growing phenomenon. From House of Cards to The Walking Dead and Battlestar Galactica to Orange is the New Black, viewers are settling in for extended viewing sessions for a myriad of reasons – entertainment, socialization, boredom, etc. An extreme form of television time shifting, binging gives the viewer control over the television content they consume and, more i...

This paper studies television-viewing adolescents within their spatial and social context, using the Uses and Gratifications approach as a typology of uses. Because previous research suggested the importance of gender-based differences in both the frequency of watching TV and of content preferences, but lacked an examination of the socialand spatial-viewing contexts for boys and girls, respecti...

RTP-Açores television fictionAn essay on «Açorianidade» While there has been television fiction in Portugal for over 30 years, this genre has achieved special relevance in the last 10 years due to the efforts of TVI, a Portuguese private channel. The television market in Portugal has been forced to adapt all its programming because of TVI’s pointed strategy to produce scripts in Portuguese and ...

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. To cite this version : Bernhaupt, Regina and Pirker, Michael User interface guidelines for the control of interactive television systems via smart phone applications. There are a growing number of smart phone applications allowing the user to control their...

Prolonged visually stressful activities aggravate dry eye disease (DED). The duration spent on such activities and their relationship with DED clinical features were investigated. Patients completed an activity log as they performed their usual activities over 1 typical rest day and 1 typical work day. The log included time spent in an air-conditioned environment, windy environment, driving, wa...

Lately, I’ve been watching television, and one of the people I see on it a lot is Tina Turner. Now Tina may seem to be an odd person to introduce into a central bank conference, but her songs have titles that fit pretty well with some of the issues raised by this Conference. First up, there is the line that she belts out on television in support of the local football code, while standing on wha...