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Pavlos S. Efraimidis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Privacy-Enhanced Television Audience Measurements
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2017Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems (SmartTVs) are a development that introduces these devices into the interconnected environment of the Internet of Things. We propose a privacy-preserving application for computing Television Audience Measurement (TAM) ratings. SmartTVs communicate over the Internet to calculate aggregate measurements. Contemporary cryptographic building blocks are utilized to ensure the privacy of the participating individuals and the validity of the computed TAM ratings. Additionally, user compensation capabilities are introduced to bring some of the company profits back to the data owners. A prototype implementation is developed on an Android-based SmartTV platform and experimental results illustrate the feasibility of the approach.
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privacy preserving Television Audience measurement using smart tvs
Information Security Conference, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
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SEC - Privacy-Preserving Television Audience Measurement Using Smart TVs
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
Cecile Meadel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ratings as politics Television Audience measurement and the state an international comparison
International Journal of Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Jerome Ourdo, Cecile MeadelAbstract:Whereas most research has focused on the commercial uses of Television Audience measurement, this article examines the political dimension of Audience measurement in a comparative study of France, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It identifies three types of relationships between the state and measurement. The guarantor state performs measurement via a public broadcaster and is involved in its implementation, be it as shareholder of the organization in charge of measurement, as reformer, or as supervisor of measurement procedures. The regulator state introduces Audience measurement figures as criteria for policy into constraining legal texts, mostly to regulate concentration. The reader state interprets Audience measurement figures as legitimate representations of the public. This political dimension helps explain the semiofficial status of measurement institutions across the countries studied.
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Moving to the peoplemetered Audience. A sociotechnical approach
European Journal of Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Cecile MeadelAbstract:Using an actor network theory approach, this article argues that the Audience exists only from the moment when it is circumstantiated and instantiated. To observe the Audience, sociology thus needs to identify its practices, discourses and manifestations. This hypothesis is illustrated though an historical case study: the adoption of a new Television Audience measurement, the peoplemeter (a new audiometer machine nowadays widely used by professionals) in France in the late 1980s. It opens the technology's black box at a time when changes forced actors to reconsider their collective and individual Audience definitions. Through analysing the implementation of the peoplemeter, the article shows how a triple process of routine, consensus and trust led the actors to accept this new system. This process, it is argued, explains how actors translated a state of their own construction of the Audience into a technological system.
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Television Audiences Across the World
2014Co-Authors: Jérôme Bourdon, Cecile MeadelAbstract:This book is the first to explore the composition of Television ratings in a cross-cultural, comparative manner. Using both communication history and the sociology of quantification, Television Audiences Across the World illuminates why the whole Television industry, and Television Audiences themselves, refer to ratings as the main way to represent the Television-watching public. It shows how a specific technology, the peoplemeter, has become the 'state of the art' in very different cultural contexts, including major non-Western countries. It analyses how Television Audience measurement succeeds in homogenizing diverse ways of watching Television among different populations, creating 'apparent nations', and at times ignoring entire regions or parts of the population. The chapters in this volume discuss why Television Audience measurement has become the dominant model for the evaluation of popularity in the post-modern world, the true 'voice of the masses', still powerful in supposedly fragmented societies.
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Television Audiences Across the World - Television Audiences Across the World
2014Co-Authors: Jérôme Bourdon, Cecile MeadelAbstract:This book is the first to explore the composition of Television ratings in a cross-cultural, comparative manner. Using both communication history and the sociology of quantification, Television Audiences Across the World illuminates why the whole Television industry, and Television Audiences themselves, refer to ratings as the main way to represent the Television-watching public. It shows how a specific technology, the peoplemeter, has become the 'state of the art' in very different cultural contexts, including major non-Western countries. It analyses how Television Audience measurement succeeds in homogenizing diverse ways of watching Television among different populations, creating 'apparent nations', and at times ignoring entire regions or parts of the population. The chapters in this volume discuss why Television Audience measurement has become the dominant model for the evaluation of popularity in the post-modern world, the true 'voice of the masses', still powerful in supposedly fragmented societies.
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inside Television Audience measurement deconstructing the ratings machine
Media Culture & Society, 2011Co-Authors: Cecile Meadel, Jerome OurdoAbstract:Based on empirical research in France, this article proposes a sociological analysis of Television Audience measurement (TAM), an operation in which people from various backgrounds (statisticians, engineers, marketing experts) coexist to produce numerical representations of Television Audiences. These are a major, basic "currency" in the Television industry and, more broadly speaking, in Television culture. This analysis departs from prevalent conceptions of ratings as either "scientific" and therefore faithful representations of Audience preferences, or, from a critical perspective, as apparatuses of surveillance and domestication. Focusing on the technology of peoplemeters, it analyzes ratings as the product of a highly complex socio-technical network, which produces robust representations of the Audience, accepted by a wide range of social actors.
George Drosatos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Privacy-Enhanced Television Audience Measurements
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2017Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems (SmartTVs) are a development that introduces these devices into the interconnected environment of the Internet of Things. We propose a privacy-preserving application for computing Television Audience Measurement (TAM) ratings. SmartTVs communicate over the Internet to calculate aggregate measurements. Contemporary cryptographic building blocks are utilized to ensure the privacy of the participating individuals and the validity of the computed TAM ratings. Additionally, user compensation capabilities are introduced to bring some of the company profits back to the data owners. A prototype implementation is developed on an Android-based SmartTV platform and experimental results illustrate the feasibility of the approach.
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privacy preserving Television Audience measurement using smart tvs
Information Security Conference, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
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SEC - Privacy-Preserving Television Audience Measurement Using Smart TVs
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
Jerome Ourdo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ratings the state and globalization the politics of Television Audience measurement in israel
Media Culture & Society, 2016Co-Authors: Jerome Ourdo, Nahuel RibkeAbstract:This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring Television Audiences, the ‘People Meter’ (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neo-liberal state, which brought about a new relation to numbers, using an increased quantity of statistics for the regulation of economic sectors. In Israel, the state, in both its old (government ministers, administrators, state-owned/public channels) and new (regulatory bodies) guises, has been deeply involved in Audience measurement. Next, the study situates the history of Audience measurement in a global context, examining the ways in which both public actors, and private actors associated with international marketing groups have domesticated a new mode of regulation for Audience measurement – the Joint Industry Committee (JIC), and the new ‘state-of-the-art’ technology – the PM. Third, it considers the political role played by Audience figures in the fight ...
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ratings as politics Television Audience measurement and the state an international comparison
International Journal of Communication, 2015Co-Authors: Jerome Ourdo, Cecile MeadelAbstract:Whereas most research has focused on the commercial uses of Television Audience measurement, this article examines the political dimension of Audience measurement in a comparative study of France, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It identifies three types of relationships between the state and measurement. The guarantor state performs measurement via a public broadcaster and is involved in its implementation, be it as shareholder of the organization in charge of measurement, as reformer, or as supervisor of measurement procedures. The regulator state introduces Audience measurement figures as criteria for policy into constraining legal texts, mostly to regulate concentration. The reader state interprets Audience measurement figures as legitimate representations of the public. This political dimension helps explain the semiofficial status of measurement institutions across the countries studied.
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inside Television Audience measurement deconstructing the ratings machine
Media Culture & Society, 2011Co-Authors: Cecile Meadel, Jerome OurdoAbstract:Based on empirical research in France, this article proposes a sociological analysis of Television Audience measurement (TAM), an operation in which people from various backgrounds (statisticians, engineers, marketing experts) coexist to produce numerical representations of Television Audiences. These are a major, basic "currency" in the Television industry and, more broadly speaking, in Television culture. This analysis departs from prevalent conceptions of ratings as either "scientific" and therefore faithful representations of Audience preferences, or, from a critical perspective, as apparatuses of surveillance and domestication. Focusing on the technology of peoplemeters, it analyzes ratings as the product of a highly complex socio-technical network, which produces robust representations of the Audience, accepted by a wide range of social actors.
Aimilia Tasidou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Privacy-Enhanced Television Audience Measurements
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2017Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems (SmartTVs) are a development that introduces these devices into the interconnected environment of the Internet of Things. We propose a privacy-preserving application for computing Television Audience Measurement (TAM) ratings. SmartTVs communicate over the Internet to calculate aggregate measurements. Contemporary cryptographic building blocks are utilized to ensure the privacy of the participating individuals and the validity of the computed TAM ratings. Additionally, user compensation capabilities are introduced to bring some of the company profits back to the data owners. A prototype implementation is developed on an Android-based SmartTV platform and experimental results illustrate the feasibility of the approach.
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privacy preserving Television Audience measurement using smart tvs
Information Security Conference, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
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SEC - Privacy-Preserving Television Audience Measurement Using Smart TVs
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2012Co-Authors: George Drosatos, Aimilia Tasidou, Pavlos S. EfraimidisAbstract:Internet-enabled Television systems, often referred to as Smart TVs, are a new development in Television and home entertainment technologies. In this work, we propose a new, privacy-preserving, approach for Television Audience Measurement (TAM), utilizing the capabilities of the Smart TV technologies. We propose a novel application to calculate aggregate Audience measurements using Smart TV computation capabilities and permanent Internet access. Cryptographic techniques, including homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, are used to ensure both that the privacy of the participating individuals is preserved and that the computed results are valid. Additionally, participants can be compensated for sharing their information. Preliminary experimental results on an Android-based Smart TV platform show the viability of the approach.
