Articles About Entertaiment

In the latest edition of our Word of the Day series, Merriam-Webster shares some of the most interesting ways people use the word “entertainment.” We’re using examples programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage. We invite you to share your own examples in the comments.

Bates and Ferri (2010) define entertainment as an activity that is understood objectively, communicates between text and audience from an external stimulus, offers pleasure, requires an audience to exist and occurs in a passive form. It is also characterized by its ability to cross over different media and to be remixed.