RELEVANT COMMENTARY FOR MEDIA CONTENT
Methods, products, apparatuses, and systems may provide and/or receive relevant commentary for media content. Additionally, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received in response to rendering a section of the media content. In addition, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on one or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and/or a preference for a state of a social network. Moreover, the relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on a topic related to the section of the media content. The relevant commentary may be provided and/or received based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary. In addition, an ambiguous section of the media content may be clarified, and/or an interactive commentary session may be simulated.
1 . A method comprising:
detecting a media content access event by a user; and
providing relevant commentary to the user in response to rendering a section of the media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is based on two or more of a preference for a temporal perspective, a preference for a viewpoint, and a preference for a state of a social network.
2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing initial commentary to the user related to the section;
receiving user commentary in response to the initial commentary; and
providing at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on the user commentary.
3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on a topic related to the section of the media content;
providing at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary;
clarifying an ambiguous section of the media content; and
simulating an interactive commentary session.
4 . A method comprising:
receiving relevant commentary in response to rendering a section of media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is based on a preference for a temporal perspective.
5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving initial commentary related to the section;
providing user commentary in response to the initial commentary; and
receiving at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on the user commentary.
6 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on a preference for a viewpoint related to the section of the media content;
receiving at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on a preference for a state of a social network;
receiving at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on a topic related to the section of the media content;
receiving at least a portion of the relevant commentary based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary;
clarifying an ambiguous section of the media content; and
simulating an interactive commentary session.
7 . A method comprising:
providing relevant commentary to a user in response to rendering a section of media content, wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is based on a preference for a temporal perspective.
8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
providing initial commentary to the user related to the section;
receiving user commentary in response to the initial commentary; and
providing at least a portion of the relevant commentary based the user commentary.
9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the media content and the initial commentary are from a past time period, the user commentary is from a present time period, and the portion of the relevant commentary is from the past time period based on the preference for a past perspective.
10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the media content is from a past time period, the initial commentary and the user commentary are from a present time period, and the portion of the relevant commentary is from the present time period based on the preference for a present perspective.
11 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the portion of the relevant commentary is from a present time period and a past time period based on the preference for a present perspective and a past perspective.
12 . The method of claim 7 , wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is provided based on a preference for a viewpoint related to the section.
13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the viewpoint is derived from one or more of a user statement, user history information, and the section of the media content.
14 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the relevant commentary is provided based on one or more of a viewpoint agreement, a viewpoint disagreement, and a viewpoint neutrality.
15 . The method of claim 7 , wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is provided based on a preference for a state of a social network.
16 . The method of claim 7 , wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is provided based on a topic to be related to the section of the media content.
17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the topic is derived from a comment expressed by one or more of the user and the media content.
18 . The method of claim 7 , wherein at least a portion of the relevant commentary is provided based on an authorship independent of a media content access event by an author of the relevant commentary.
19 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising clarifying an ambiguous section of the media content.
20 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising simulating an interactive commentary session.