Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 22:10:44 -0500
Excepts from RASCHKE's comment, posted at 16:26 on 5 Aug 95:
> You can't just click your
> favorite Web page on and off like you can CNN.
One finger, one mouse button. Click on Netscape. It loads Trumpet and
logs me on automatically. Click three times to navigate on Newslink, which
is my designated first-loaded page, and I'm at Mercury Center.
One finger, one remote. Click on "on." My TV warms up and CNN, the
last channel I watched comes on. Click on the up arrow 14 times and
I'm at C-SPAN.
If anything, TV navigation is harder. I could have typed instructions
to Netscape. Likewise, I could have typed in "02" and "Enter" on my
remote.
Either way, I didn't exactly break a sweat.
Neither, by the way, is a case of passive media use. Passive use is
Muzak. Both are what most researchers call "casual" use.
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