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- Title
- Social Media Audience Metrics as a New Form of TV Audience Measurement
- Author/Creator
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Woodford, Darryl |
Goldsmith, Ben |
Bruns, Axel
- Description
- Digital media have contributed to significant disruptions in the business of audience measurement. Television broadcasters have long relied on simple and authoritative measures of who is watching what. The demand for ratings data, as a common currency in transactions involving advertising and program content, will likely remain, but accompanying measurements of audience engagement with media content would also be of value. Today's media environment increasingly includes social media and second-screen use, providing a data trail that affords an opportunity to measure engagement. If the limitations of using social media to indicate audience engagement can be overcome, social media use may allow for quantitative and qualitative measures of engagement. Raw social media data must be contextualized, and it is suggested that tools used by sports analysts be incorporated to do so. Inspired by baseball's Sabremetrics, the authors propose Telemetrics in an attempt to separate actual performance from contextual factors. Telemetrics facilitates measuring audience activity in a manner controlling for factors such as time slot, network, and so forth. It potentially allows both descriptive and predictive measures of engagement.
- Relation
- Produsing Theory in a Digital World 2.0: The Intersection of Audiences and Production in Contemporary Theory. Volume 2 / Rebecca Ann Lind (ed): pp.141-158
- Year
- 2015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
- Subject
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FoR 1902 (Film, Television and Digital Media) |
audience research |
audience measurement |
telemetrics |
sabremetrics |
television |
social media
- Resource Type
- Book Chapter
- Identifier
- ISBN: 9781433127281
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