Characterizing video watching practices among young people with Interaction Flows

Abstract

This text presents the results of a diary study (based on a deck of cards) conducted for two weeks, followed by semi-structured interviews with ten female participants who live in a mid-sized student town in Belgium. The findings reveal the diversity of current video watching practices prevalent in this era of media convergence and how they are the result of pluri-dimensional combinations that these young people construct based on different genres and types of content, providers and screens used in different locations and temporalities. As results, we present four types of interaction flows, each centred on one fixed element: favourite content, a certain provider, a specific time or location. These flows illustrate how new video watching practices coexist with traditional habits, and that they are the result of the reshaping of behaviour described in previous studies.

Keywords
Video consumption; Interaction flows; Diary study; Young people; Belgium