Broadcatching

As Broad Catch or round fishing refers to a possible development of future media form that has been researched the mid-1990s at MIT 's Media Lab. The term is a pun on Broadcasting (English radio ).

In contrast to the distribution of content over a mode of distribution such as broadcasting or distribution (eg cable network; see also push principle ), the user can at Broad Catch not only the source ( say for example a TV station ) select, but also the content itself. The contents are not sent, but actively sought ( cf. pull principle ); the degree of interactivity of the medium increases it. Therefore Broad Catch forms - at least theoretically - a qualitative expansion compared to the narrowcasting. Actual impact on the media world had the MIT concepts from the 90s until now, however, is not.

Broadcatching

The end of 2003, the concept of Broadcatching appeared in a slightly varied form again in the public debate; Broadcatching also means a form of content distribution, but the process is distributed (see P2P) and is technically based on a combination of RSS (Rich Site Summary, see also blog) and BitTorrent.