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The transition of second screen devices to first screen status in sport viewing
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posted on 2019-04-02, 13:12 authored by Hibai Lopez-Gonzalez, Constantino Stavros, Aaron SmithAaron SmithIt has been generally argued that, despite the emergence and wide adoption of second screen devices (SSD) as ancillary tools, television screens continue to be the medium of choice for watching live sport. In this article, however, we maintain that a transition of SSD to first screen status is already underway. First, we dispute that SSD content and screen size present barriers to use. Second, we suggest that a first screen transition of SSD is a fact in many emerging economies. Finally, we argue that the transformation of screens as payment and tracking devices, to which we intimately relate, has been largely overlooked when assessing the likelihood of SSD becoming first screens, and that the replacement of television by SSD is symptomatic of a broader transition from collective to individual consumption devices.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Sport in SocietyVolume
22Issue
12Pages
2077 - 2088Citation
LOPEZ-GONZALEZ, H., STAVROS, C. and SMITH, A.C., 2018. The transition of second screen devices to first screen status in sport viewing. Sport in Society, 22 (12), pp.2077-2088.Publisher
© Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2018-12-30Notes
This paper is closed access.ISSN
1743-0437eISSN
1743-0445Publisher version
Language
- en