Christian Sandvig will present the Department of Communication Colloquium - “Networked Television Beyond Television Networks: The Policy Problems of Internet Video Distribution”.
The talk will be held at Lincoln Hall on Friday, April 17, 2:30 p.m.

Abstract: We are in an exciting transitional moment for anyone interested in television–such as the 98.9% of Americans who watch it. Despite larger screens, new formats, digital broadcasts, and a variety of alternative platforms and technologies, the audience for network television is in decline (dropping 10% last year). Yet screen time with video remains strong, it is just increasingly on a device fed by (or occasionally replaced by) computation and served by the Internet in some form. Consider only one example of this Internet encroachment: Web-based video watched on a computer (Hulu, YouTube). About half of all Internet users in the US have tried it, nearly 1 in 6 adults watch on a daily or weekly basis, and almost 1 in 3 young people do. As of December, more than 1 in 6 searches performed on the Internet are seeking video, almost all on YouTube. Other Internet encroachments and combinations abound, with varying success so far (Netflix/360, AppleTV, Mobile TV, and so on).

About the Speaker: Christian Sandvig is Associate Professor in Communication, Media Studies, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and an affiliate of the Illinois Center for Wireless Systems. In 2002 he was named “next-generation leader in technology policy” by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006 he received the NSF CAREER award in Human-Centered Computing.