TV digital en movimiento
Pantallas personales y burbujas como modos de habitar el espacio público en los subtes de Buenos Aires
Keywords:
Digital TV, smartphones, everyday media practices, mobile technologiesAbstract
Watching TV and audiovisual content has been decoupled from TV itself and spreaded throughout multiple screens (Bury, 2018). In the transition from a way of watching TV contents from another, cell pones became relevant devices for digital TV consumption as well as for organizing everyday life experiences.
This paper explores how passenegers watch TV in their smartphones while on the subways in Buenos Aires City, their motivations and meanings they give to this practice. Throughout observations and interviews, we describe a particular use of digital TV that is mostly related to the building of intimacy bubbles in the public space. Passengers watch TV in small screens, wearing headphones that cancel external noise, standing or seated, in a space that is overcrowded and noisy and in which moving is difficult. The TV watching practices in this context might reinforce the sense of no place Meyrowitz described when analyzing TV as an electronic media, even when the action takes place in a particular public space as a subway train. To commute connected and watching small personal screens, foreign to the external world, suggests that a new ontology of presence in the public space is being produced and it is specific for this era of permanent connectivity, populated by multiple screens. Mobile technologies are the main media, whereas the social is transformed into “a crowd, in a renewed koinomía of users united by their participation in the new digital kingdom of the voice and the image” (Aranzueque, 2010: 12).
Mobility enables and shapes particular uses of digital TV in which the duration of the ride and the need to spend that time in some other things are key. In these experiences, new ways of being connected strangers that share a public space emerge.
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