The End of Television?

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.

• 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