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Closed Caption, Open Source

2004; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 22; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1023/b

1573-1995

Erik Blankinship, Brian Smith, Heather Holtzman, Walter Bender,

Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

This paper explores how television fans appropriate video for personal expression and how technology can support such creative appropriation. Televisions do not have an equivalent to a Web browser's view source option; however, programmes can be structured by their transcripts, embedded as closed captions in the signal of most shows. With our talkTV video-editing software, rearranging lines of dialogue automatically creates new scenes, thereby enabling television viewers to become authors and editors. We present a case study of how television fans used talkTV and conclude with a discussion of the implications to digital rights management of this work and the potential for 'view source' television.