Thursday, January 18, 2018

Wikipedia and The Crown



It’s fascinating how The Crown has unanimously ushered this wave of Wikipedia-ing. I thought I was alone in not being able to put my phone during an episode because you want to ‘fact check.’ It’s a good lead in for shows that want to inspire more interaction, that could possibly be the next trend (probably already?). It also brings us around to some of the points McLuhan states; TV as a “cool” medium that is consequently an interactive platform where the audience has to participate (in this case, fact checking). What speaks more for the series is its skill in narrative disclosure despite spoilers and events being out there and publicly known.

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