{"id":1437,"date":"2013-02-01T03:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T03:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2013-02-01T03:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T03:23:57","slug":"a_rare_opportunity_to_see_chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/a_rare_opportunity_to_see_chan\/","title":{"rendered":"a rare opportunity to see change happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/XX3oaT\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s New York Times provides a terrific example of how shifts in the mechanisms of distribution and consumption work over time to produce significant changes in the mode of expression itself.<br \/>\n&#8220;House of Cards, which is the first show made specifically for Netflix, <em>dispenses with some of the traditions that are so common on network TV, like flashbacks.<\/em> There is less reason to remind viewers what happened in previous episodes, the producers say, because so many viewers will have just seen it. And if they don&#8217;t remember, Google is just a click away. The show &#8220;assumes you know what&#8217;s happening all the time, whereas television has to assume that a big chunk of the audience is always just tuning in,&#8221; said Ted Sarandos, Netflix&#8217;s chief content officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a terrific example of how shifts in the mechanisms of distribution and consumption work over time to produce significant changes in the mode of expression itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}