ABSTRACT
Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news.
Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic upheavals in Europe in the late 1990s.
This interaction between media theories and media discourses, makes the book highly relevant for researchers in media and cultural studies as well as linguistics, and provides an important and innovatory link between these different approaches.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part |42 pages
The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting
chapter |12 pages
Regularity and change in 24-hour news
chapter |14 pages
Liveness as synchronicity and liveness as aesthetic
part |51 pages
The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting
chapter |18 pages
Constructing Europe
chapter |15 pages
Narrowcasting
chapter |13 pages
Spatial relations and sociability
part |51 pages
Trash and quality