The article Flow, Home, and Media Pleasures wrote by Lee Harrington and Denise Bielby focuses on different aspects of relationships dealing with pleasures of television. Throughout the article the process of television flow is being examined and reviewed to acknowledge how to keep viewers sucked into to the drama packed shows.
First, the article goes through the process of writing media so that it flows for television and audiences at home are stuck on watching the show. In the article it tells the process of how to consume viewers worldwide by using drama and an ending that keeping the viewer wanting to see more. The article tells that cross cultural television is associated with pleasure. The focus is on dramas such as soap operas and their viewers and fans. The journal focuses on strategies, tactics and ways to be creative while playing with viewers.
In this paper article's breakdown, soap fans' along with drama filled media, visit the world wide realm, with psychological review of reality and fantasy that are mixed to make the viewers at home have a pleasurable experience while sitting on their couch. The article explains how TV programming works, how they put the most interesting shows that draw people in on in the evenings when viewers are home relaxing.
After my analysis of the article it was logically organized. It pointed out the main ideas about what consumes viewers into viewing media shows and presented them clearly. The article was easy to read as it examined and explained the reasoning behind what took place with the media shows.
The key ideas I took away from this article was that now when I watch a drama packed television show, I look for the drama mixed into the show that keeps viewers like me watching. I now have knowledge of the views of the producers and why they do certain things with entertaining people at home.
References:
Harrington, L., & Bielby, D. (2005). Flow, home, and media pleasures . Journal of Popular Culture, 834-854.
Interesting inside view of the creators of television. If you think about it, it's really an experiment they are performing. New shows are made, tested on the air, and may only last 3 episodes, depending on the feedback they receive from their rating system. I have started to watch a show, and liked it, only to find it got pulled... how irritating is that! I have noticed the "popular culture" of today's television lies within the hour long dramas (cop, lawyers, and doctor shows), and reality TV. The half hour sitcoms are few and far between anymore, at least the good ones. And the ones they do show, tend to be on early in the evening, not the prime slots.
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