Para entender o que são web TVs: primeiras buscas

Abstract

The subject of the article is web TVs. It presents and discusses results of the first queries made using "TV" as a search term on the Internet, and aimed to verify how they have been enunciated in the Web. For this analysis purposes, we used the frames methodology, which consists of mapping experience and meaning boards which are technically and aesthetically constructed by each medium in order to suggest some meanings to the content it conveys. In parallel, it briefly recovers a history which highlights four television generations in Brazil, where the fourth would be precisely the one of the web TVs. As from the analysis performed, the primary outcome was a weighting that maybe this generation is indeed something different from television, the point zero of the emergence of another phenomenon, still in progress, still poorly understood and explained in the current of TV´s technical and research phase.