The End of Television?

Its Impact on the World (So Far)

AvElihu Katz,Paddy Scannell

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Is television dead? The classic television era of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by limited choices of programs broadcast on over the air channels to families as if they were seated around a hearth – and to a nation as if gathered around a campfire – has indeed ended.

That early stage of "sharedness" and "scarcity" gave way to the television of "plenty," when satellite and cable and competition reigned, choice was suddenly expanded, and every room in the home had its own television set. And now television offers infinite choices where we can view what we like; when we like; where we like; on a variety of screens, telephones, and Web sites. Some researchers assert that television is not dead but has merely moved from a "collectivist" to an "individualist" phase.

Throughout the drastic evolution of this media, thousands of studies have examined the short-term effects of television, such as the evaluation of persuasion campaigns. Yet there is scant research on the overreaching sociological impacts of television and its centrality to Western culture over the past 60 years. This compelling volume of The ANNALS is the first collection of rigorous articles devoted to studying ways in which television has impacted our values, ideologies, institutions, social structure, and culture.

Focusing on classic television, these leading experts in media studies delve into the effects on social institutions (namely family and politics) and its effects on values and everyday behavior. These seminal articles lay the groundwork for innovative studies of the numerous ways that television has impacted democracy; social integration (nation and family); trust and suspiciousness; materialism; and identity (social and physical). Students and researchers will find a wealth of inspiration for new research projects. It is a must-have resource for social scientists interested in media studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series
Antal sidor:236
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781412978521

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Paddy Scannell worked for many years at the University of Westminster (London) where he and his colleagues established, in 1975, the first undergraduate degree program in Media Studies in the UK. He is a founding editor of Media, Culture and Society which began publication in 1979 and is now issued six times yearly. He is the author of A Social History of British Broadcasting, 1922-1939 which he wrote with David Cardiff, editor of Broadcast Talk and author of Radio, Television and Modern Life. He is currently working on a trilogy. The first volume, Media and Communication, was published in June 2007. Professor Scannell is now working on the second volume, Television and the Meaning of ′Live.′ The third volume, Love and Communication, is in preparation. His research interests include broadcasting history and historiography, the analysis of talk, the phenomenology of communication and culture and communication in Africa.

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The End of Television - Elihu KatzSharing and Showing: Television as Monstration - Daniel DayanWe Liked to Watch: Television as Progenitor of the Surveillance Society - Joshua MeyrowitzWhat Is U.S. Television Now? - Amanda D. LotzContextualizing the Broadcast Era: Nation, Commerce and Constraint - William Uricchio Of Time and Television - John P. Robinson and Steven MartinThe Face of Television - Paul FroshThe Performance on Television of Sincerely Felt Emotion - John EllisCultural and Moral Authority: The Presumption of Television - David E. MorrisonTelevision, Public Participation and Public Service: From Value Consensus to the Politics of Identity - Peter LuntThe End of Television: Gender and Family in Television’s Golden Age and Beyond - Andrea PressHalf a Century of Television in the Lives of Our Children - Sonia LivingstonePolitical Communication –Old and New Media Relationships - Michael Gurevitch, Stephen Coleman, and Jay G. BlumlerTV News and the Nation: The End? - Menahem Blondheim and Tamar LiebesEnd of Television and Foreign Policy - Monroe PriceTelevision and the Transformation of Sport - Garry WhannelThe Dialectic of Time and Television - Paddy Scannell