Twebivision | The Academic Study of Web Television

The Academic Study of Web Television

There’s no prime time. There’s no such thing as must-see TV. Everyone’s composing their own flow. And once you start becoming the composer of your own flow, you can’t go back.

Lars Bastholm, chief creative officer at AKQA, (Multiscreen Mad Men, NY Times Magazine, 11/21/2008)

A New Dialogue in Curriculum and Study

As YouTube and broadband social networked video is now over 5 years old, web television and online content are a serious consideration for content creators. As communication curriculum in higher education maintains its scholarly stronghold while simultaneously attempting to keep up with technological and social changes, a new approach to visual content is necessary.

Research in Progress

My name is Jamie Cohen and I am a professor and consultant of new media and online content. I research web television and online technologies in hopes of bringing new ideas to higher education as well as creatives. My research has been presented at the Broadcast Education Association Convention and published in media journals. As the creator and advisor of HTVinteractive.com, I enable students to create work for the web in an academic atmosphere. My training comes from television production and a philosophical standpoint of media literacy and activism. I have executive produced several web series and consult on many more – my aim is to aid creatives on a path of high quality production.

Currently, I am culminating all of my research in a book called “The Screen: The World in One Medium” which focuses on the potential of visual content.

Keep up with my research at the TWEBIVISION BLOG where I post about web television and the audience.