Cinema-going trajectories in the digital age

Styliari, Tatiana Charikleia; Kefalidou, Genovefa; Koleva, Boriana

Abstract

The activity of cinema-going constantly evolves and gradually integrates the use of digital data and platforms to become more engaging for the audiences. Combining methods from the fields of Human Computer Interaction and Film Studies, we conducted two workshops seeking to understand cinema audiences’ digital practices and explore how the contemporary cinema-going experience is shaped in the digital age. Our findings suggest that going to the movies constitutes a trajectory during which cinemagoers interact with multiple digital platforms. At the same time, depending on their choices, they construct unique digital identities that represent a set of online behaviours and rituals that cinemagoers adopt before, while and after cinema-going. To inform the design of new, engaging cinemagoing experiences, this research establishes a preliminary map of contemporary cinema-going including digital data and platforms. We then discuss how audiences perceive the potential improvement of the experience and how that would lead to the construction of digital identities.

Citation

Styliari, T. C., Kefalidou, G., & Koleva, B. Cinema-going trajectories in the digital age. Presented at 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference

• Conference Name: 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference
• End Date: Jul 6, 2018
• Acceptance Date: May 10, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 2, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 23, 2018
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Cinema-going experience, Cinema, User journey, Trajectories, Cinemagoers, Rituals, Digital platforms, Digital identity.
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/944912
• Contract Date: Jul 23, 2018