2018年2月8日 星期四

"infotainment" and "infotainer"

According to China, the future of refueling your car goes likes this: drive in, tap your car’s infotainment screen, and drive right off.
The future of refueling goes likes this: drive in, tap your car’s infotainment screen, and drive right off.
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Infotainment (a portmanteau of information and entertainment),[1] also called soft news, is a type of media, usually television, that provides a combination of information and entertainment.[2] The term is usually used disapprovingly against more serious hard news.[3][4] Many existing, self-described infotainment websites and social media apps provide a variety of functions and services.[5]

Origin[edit]

The terms "infotainment" and "infotainer" were first used in September 1980 at the Joint Conference of Aslib, the Institute of Information Scientists and the Library Association in Sheffield, UK. The Infotainers were a group of British information scientists who put on comedy shows at their professional conferences between 1980 and 1990.[citation needed] In 1983, infotainment began to see more popular usage [1] Around this time, infotainment gradually began to replace soft news with communications theorists.[12]
An earlier, and slightly variant term, "infortainment" was coined in 1974 as the title of the 1974 convention of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), the association of college radio stations in the United States. It took place on April 5–7, 1974, at the Statler Hilton Hotel, now the Hotel Pennsylvania. It was defined as the "nexus between Information and Entertainment".[citation needed]

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