Description |
xxi, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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Comedia |
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Comedia.
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Note |
Originally presented as papers at a symposium organized by the DigiCult research group in Paris in collaboration with the Institut Francais de Presse at the Universite de Paris II in October, 2008. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The medium of television: changes and continuities. Television in the digital public sphere / Jostein Gripsrud -- TV as time machine: television's changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history / William Uricchio -- "Critical social optics" and the transformations of audio-visual culture / John Corner -- MSN, the Interface / Nick Browne -- Changing genres. Bingeing on box-sets: the national and the digital in television crime drama / Charlotte Brunsdon -- Forward to the past: the strange case of The wire / Erlend Lavik -- The "Bollywoodization" of Indian TV news / Daya K. Thussu -- Amateur images in the professional news stream / Helle Sjvaag and John Bridge -- A new space for democracy? Online media, factual genres and the transformation of traditional mass media / Ib Bondebjerg -- Lifestyle as factual entertainment / Christa Lykke Christensen -- Reception: figures, experience, significance. Television use in new media environments / Barbara Gentikow -- The grey area. A rough guide: television fans, internet forums, and the cultural public sphere / Peter Larsen -- X-factor viewers : X-Factor debate on an Internet debate forum / Anne Jerslev -- The digitally enhanced audience: new attitudes to factual footage / John Ellis -- Digital media, television, and the discourse of smears / Todd Gitlin -- Critical perspectives. The cost of citizenship in the digital age: on being informed and the commodification of the public sphere / Peter Golding -- Networking the commons: convergence culture and the public interest / Graham Murdock -- Smart homes: digital lifestyles practiced and imagined / Lynn Spigel -- Television as a means of transport: Digital teletechnologies and transmodal systems / David Morley. |
Summary |
This title aims to describe, analyse and interpret a highly complex process of change, delivering a critical account of the digitization process as a multifaceted whole. |
Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Technological innovations.
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Digital television.
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Digital media.
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Television programs -- Social aspects.
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
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Television and politics.
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Added Author |
Gripsrud, Jostein, 1952-
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ISBN |
9780415564533 (pbk.) |
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9780415564526 (hardback) |
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0415564522 (hardback) |
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0415564530 (pbk.) |
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9780203851371 (ebook) |
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0203851374 (ebook) |
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