Entertaiment Articles
A clown at a child’s birthday party, a Broadway show, a stadium rock concert, or friends fighting over the last potato chip are all entertainment. The word comes from the Latin inter tenere, meaning “to hold inside.” It’s about bringing pleasure to an audience. According to Oliver and Barstsch, entertainment is understood objectively, involves communication between text and audience, offers an external stimulus, provides pleasure and requires a passive form of engagement.
Entertainment is also a verb, and a synonym of amuse and distract; an agreeable occupation for the mind, diversion, or amusement: completing the daily crossword puzzle, for example. It is also related to hospitality, involving the hospitable provision for guests’ needs and wants. See also entertainment industry, entertainment software and transformational entertainment news.