Here's a thought - just putting it out there.
(DEEP BREATH)
There seems to be no general consensus on an accepted term for the genre of content that's being described as online show, web show, web series, online series, online drama, online comedy, online (insert genre here), digi novel or diginovel, webisodes, social shows, Internet narratives, social media series and many many more...
- you can probably suggest some more terms floating out there in COMMENTS below.
But there's one term that is really bugging me. And I find it very difficult to use it on this site.
WEB TV.
Web TV.
webtv.
The problem is, - it does actually instantly convey what a show is.
It's the most understandable of all the terms, and yet there's something about it that doesn't feel right.
In the 1950's, we didn't instantly backdate the new medium of television by calling it VisionRadio. Though that is pretty much what TV is, technically.
But the content, - the CONTENT - of TV managed to develop beyond "recording a radio series in a television studio". Genres evolved in ways that can only exist on television.
So what to do with WEB TV.
There are shows which properly describe themselves as Web TV.
They are TV shows "broadcast" on the web.
Or short films, broken up and uploaded to the web.
But if you have a stream of content (even if it is mostly video, and episodic), and are trying to build a community, and a 2-way relationship with the audience...
...Do you really want to hobble your show with the phrase "Web TV"?
Aren't you attempting to create something beyond TV?
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