Internet television allows the users to choose the program or the television show they want to watch from an archive of programs or from a channel directory. The two forms of viewing Internet television are streaming the content directly to a media player or simply downloading the program to the user's computer. With the "TV on Demand" market growing, these on-demand websites or applications are a must have for major television broadcasters. This book is your ultimate resource for Internet TV. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Internet TV right away, covering: Internet television, Catch up TV, BBC iPlayer, Channel 4, ITV Player, STV Player, UTV, Demand 5, Hulu, Revision3, Nederland 24, ABC iview, Australia Live TV, SeeSaw (Internet television), RTE player, TTNET, List of Internet television providers, TVCatchup, Sky Player, Argela, Arqiva, Google TV, Raidio Teilifis Eireann, TG4, TV3 (Ireland), Comparison of streaming media systems, Comparison of video hosting services, Content delivery network, Digital television, Grid casting, Interactive television, IPTV, Home theater PC, List of streaming media systems, Multicast, P2PTV, Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations Treaty, Push technology, Smart TV, Software as a service, Streaming media, Web television, Web-to-TV, Webcast This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Internet TV. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Internet TV with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

Interactive television (generally known as ITV or sometimes as iTV when used as branding) describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it. This book is your ultimate resource for Interactive TV. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Interactive TV right away, covering: Interactive television, Enhanced TV, Accidental Lovers, ActiveVideo Networks, Advanced Digital Broadcast, AFDESI, AOL TV, ASTRA Platform Services, ASTRA2Connect, ASTRA2Connect Maritime Broadband, Attack of the Show!, BBC Red Button, BD-J, Broadcast Markup Language, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, CBS Summer Playhouse, CloudTV, Control System Middleware for operator functioning (CSMW), Crid, Datacasting, First Business, Football First, Free Stuff, Full Service Network, The Game Show, Ginga (SBTVD Middleware), Globally Executable MHP, Google TV, User: Nickwald/google tv (for AWID), Hauppauge MediaMVP, Hugo (franchise), Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV, IceTV, IMX, Individual Television Experience, Interactive television standards, Smart TV, IP over DVB, IVOD, Key & See, Larry the Lobster (Saturday Night Live), MetaTV, MHEG-5, Moxi, MPEG-2, MSN TV, Multimedia Home Platform, Multiprotocol Encapsulation, OEDN, Open...., OpenTV, OpenTV Hardware Porting Kit, Overcasting, Playin' TV, Portable Content Format, Pushbutton, Red Button (digital television), ReplayTV, Rock Star (TV series), Satellite contribution, Slime Time Live, Solaris Mobile, Stoneroos, SWRV, Televisionary, Telly (home entertainment server), TiVo, TiVo, Inc., Transformers: The Headmasters, TV Site, TVWorks, U-Pick Live, UK Profile of MHEG-5, Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation, Viera Cast, WapTV, WTVML, XBMC, Xlet, Yasmin's Getting Married, YouView This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Interactive TV. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Interactive TV with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

Along with its interrelated companion volume, The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video, this book covers the next generation of TV—streaming online video, with details about its present and a broad perspective on the future. It reviews the new technical elements that are emerging, both in hardware and software, their long-term trend, and the implications. It discusses the emerging ‘media cloud’ of video and infrastructure platforms, and the organizational form of such TV.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis. While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation, have the potential to transform international relations in positive ways, they also pose challenges to peace and security and raise new ethical, legal and political questions about the use of power and the role of humans in war and conflict. This book makes a contribution to these debates by considering emerging technologies across three levels of analysis: (1) the international system (systemic level) including the balance of power; (2) the state and its role in international affairs and how these technologies are redefining and challenging the state’s traditional roles; and (3) the relationship between the state and society, including how these technologies affect individuals and non-state actors. This provides specific insights at each of these levels and generates a better understanding of the connections between the international and the local when it comes to technological advance across time and space The chapters examine the implications of these technologies for the balance of power, examining the strategies of the US, Russia, and China to harness AI, robotics and automation (and how their militaries and private corporations are responding); how smaller and less powerful states and non-state actors are adjusting; the political, ethical and legal implications of AI and automation; what these technologies mean for how war and power is understood and utilized in the 21st century; and how these technologies diffuse power away from the state to society, individuals and non-state actors. This volume will be of much interest to students of international security, science and technology studies, law, philosophy, and international relations.

This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.

User generated content (UGC) covers a range of media content available in a range of modern communications technologies. It entered mainstream usage during 2005 having arisen in web publishing and new media content production circles. Its use for a wide range of applications, including problem processing, news, gossip and research, reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. All digital media technologies are included, such as question-answer databases, digital video, blogging, podcasting, forums, review-sites, social networking, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further reduce the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery. This book is your ultimate resource for User Generated Content. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about User Generated Content right away, covering: User-generated content, Citizen media, Associated Content, BlogTV, Challenge for Change, Citizen journalism, Community media, Democratic journalism, Digital journalism, Digital public square, Drama 2.0, Global Voices Online, Guerrilla television, Holy Mountain (website), Learner generated context, Participatory media, Participatory video, Save the Internet, TrekMovie.com, TVTV, Videofreex, Wiki journalism, Collective intelligence, Adaptive website, Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm, Bees algorithm, Central media, Civic intelligence, Cold start, Collaborative filtering, Collaborative intelligence, Collective consciousness, Collective memory, Collective wisdom, Consumer-generated marketing, DailyPerfect, Decentralized decision making, Socially Distributed Cognition, Dotmocracy, E-participation, Group intelligence, Helium.com, The IRG Solution, Jumper 2.0, Knowledge Plaza, Knowledge tag, The Lucifer Principle, Meme, MyBlogLog, Open Source Center, Open source intelligence, Organizational intelligence, Scarab Research, Science.tv, Smart mob, Social choice theory, Social data analysis, Superorganism, Swarm intelligence, System justification, Urtak, Wreckamovie This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of User Generated Content. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of User Generated Content with the objectivity of experienced professionals.