Xavier Ribes

This book presents a research report into the state of interactive television and the different systems for interaction with television developed by the regulating authority in Catalonia (Spain). The context of the study is the European continent and it covers theoretical, technological and programming issues. The authors propose an operative definition of interactive television as a tool for developing their field of study and an original typological proposal that can classify and analyze the whole range of the present offer of interactive programs and services. Also presented throughout the article is an analysis of the different interactive services in the European continent.

To end, the authors propose a whole series of recommendations for the regulating authority as measures for promoting these types of services and applications, with particular emphasis on the role that Digital Terrestrial Television could play as a universalizing platform for access to the new services of the Information Society. Mention is made of the specific case of Catalonia as an example of the measures that should be observed for the full and integrated development of the services that are generically known as interactive television.

This book is the result of a collective research that wanted to know the information practices of Catalan-language mass media and the news actors in Internet.

The volume offers a study of the organizations implied in the news gathering in order to know the characteristics of journalistic practices in online newsrooms. It is a dynamic, diverse and changing reality from a historical perspective..

The focus of the research interest has been the models of presence in Internet, the organization of online newsrooms, the journalistic practices and routines and the contents and formats thought for an online audience.