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Record Nr.

UNISA996203964803316

Autore

Ott Brian L

Titolo

The small screen [[electronic resource] ] : how television equips us to live in the information age / / Brian L. Ott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-281-06958-2

9786611069582

0-470-69246-4

0-470-76637-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/45

302.2345

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Small Screen : How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age; Contents; Preface; 1 Television and Social Change; The Times They Are a-Changin'; Television as Public Discourse; 2 Life in the Information Age; The Information Explosion; Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism; Social Anxieties in the Information Age; 3 Hyperconscious Television; Embracing 'the Future': The Attitude of Yes; The Simpsons as Exemplar; Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV; 4 Nostalgia Television; Celebrating 'the Past': The Attitude of No; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Exemplar

Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV5 Television and the Future; (Re)Viewing the Small Screen; Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century; The Next Great Paradigm Shift?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes that took place in programming, such as the rapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers, the development of niche marketing, the introduction of high-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, and the creation of new formats like reality-based



programming Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewers a symbolic resource for negotiati