I-Views: a community-oriented system for sharing streaming video on the Internet

Streaming media is pervasive on the Internet now and is continuing to grow rapidly. Most streaming media systems have adopted the model of broadcast. Unfortunately, the nature of the broadcast-like one-to-many communication m odel is not able to foster interaction and collaboration among people. In t his paper we discuss a community-oriented communication model for sharing s treaming video and introduce a prototype, I-Views. This is a system that pe rmits individuals to use published, communally-owned media clips in order t o author narratives by assembling clips, and to build communities of simila r interests based on comparison of these narratives. By offering shared aut horship, tools and virtual environments, I-Views demonstrates some potentia l directions for 'sharable video.' (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B .V. All rights reserved.