Public Viewing of Television

The Public viewing of television is a relatively new and interesting social phenomenon. The public viewing of television is a very interesting social phenomenon with a completely different set of habits and intricacies than that of home viewing. In some ways it can be considered as a completely separate social phenomena of regular, home based, television viewing. The viewing norms associated with public television viewing are very complex, can vary from location to location and are under continuous change as technology advances.
While people watch TV in public they consciously and semiconsciously interact with both the television they are watching and the people around them. In attempting to describe the norms of public viewing in a particular environment, one must look at how the physical structure of the environment, the types of viewers present and the various social gratification goals of these viewers affects the norms.
The public viewing location looked at in this paper is ...