The boards will be expressed on AmericanIdol.com assisted by Facebook, as a security mechanism, verify the identity of the spectators through a registration process. Each spectator who accesses through Facebook will be allowed to vote 50 times during the weekly after transmission.
The voting of "Idol" beginning on Tuesday. Fox said he would continue to accept votes via toll-free telephone numbers and, for customers of AT&T, text messages.
AT&T to sponsor the online voting, effectively extending its sponsorship of the show. In a statement, Simon Fuller, the creator of "American Idol", said that the show had sought a way to count the votes online for several years.
"Now, Facebook has offered us a safe solution, and we are ready to go," he said.
Adding online voting is one of the most important changes for this year's "Idol", now in its 10th season. As part of a review, the show has two new judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez and has made several changes to the format.
Online vote option should greatly increase the number of votes each week for competitors.
Katherine Meizel, author of "Idolized: music, Media and identity in" American Idol "," said that the addition of online voting could also extend the voting demographic.
"For years, there has been criticism that suggest that the dominance of Southern" Idol "winner is due to the predominance of AT&T in the South, so that this could alleviate that problem," he said in an e-mail.
TV-reality producers are increasingly trying to incorporate the Web the hearing and the Elimination of their competitions. "the X-Factor," the singing contest that Simon Cowell, the former "Idol" judge, import from Great Britain, the United States has reported an option to vote online as well. That show will premiere on Fox in the fall.
MS. Meizel noted that spin-off of "Idol" in other countries have already incorporated online voting, including the Arabic language "Super Star", telecast from 2003 to 2008.
"The public discourse about that show often relied on the idea of democratisation and the potential symbolic significance of the vote in the Middle East," he said. "And Americans are used to talk about the Internet as a democratizing force. For "American Idol", in particular, where voting is really about consumer choice disguised as quintessential Act of the democratic process, the online option really stresses that type of thought. "
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