At FutureFest, Ian Forrester will explore the cutting edge research the BBC is conducting into the future of media. Ian will discuss a media which fuses the best of the internet with the rich history of storytelling. His session will investigate the contradiction of this new type of storytelling that borrows extensively from ancient methods of communication; one which uses different data to actively shift and change the media for the enjoyment of the unknowingly participating audience.
This new world comes with a number of difficult ethical considerations, and BBC R&D is working with university partners to explore the constraints in an open way. Ian will set the scene of what's currently possible, some of the moon shot ideas and where they have drawn the line to date.
12. Attention is a scarce commodity
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dani_vazquez/12644326014
13. The attention economy
http://www.themoviedb.org/account/LaTropa64 - Quote from New Line Cinema’s “Se7en”
“Wanting people to listen, you can’t
just tap them on the shoulder any-
more. You have to hit them with a
sledgehammer, and then you’ll notice
you’ve got their strict attention”
- John Doe
14. Just a tickle will do
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_lee/2394548742
33. A different shared experience
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627
34. Media that watches you?
http://www.beyond.red/tag/visual-perceptive-media
35. Media that watches you?
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/130437-smart-tvs-are-watching-you-which-shares-your-private-data-most-samsung-lg-sony-and-more
36. Media that watches you?
http://ethics.virt.ch.bbc.co.uk/privacy.htm
There’s an example of a prominent social network that’s released an
application that, that basically listens to what’s going on in the room to try and
work out what TV shows might be going on in the background.
In actual fact, it’s, that’s in LG’s privacy agreements as well saying that if you,
if you use the sound command features of the televisions, it wasn’t left to
doubt, it actually said that private speech that occurs in the same room will be
captured.
- Jason Huntley