ISBN:
9780415085083
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Uses of Television
DDC:
302.2345
Keywords:
Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
John Hartley's new book defends the place of television in our lives, suggesting that it reunites government, education and media to create a new kind of cultural teaching which communicates across social and geographical boundaries
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; (Pre-script) Per-sona: selves, knowledge, books; What are the uses of television studies? A modern archaeology; TV studies as cross-demographic communication; Television as transmodern teaching; Teaching not power: ideological atrocities and improper questions; Knowledge, television and the 'textual tradition'; Brief encounters, khaki shorts and wilful blindness: television without television; Housing television: a film, a fridge and social democracy; Democracy as defeat: the social eye of cultural studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Schools of thought: desire and fear discourse and politics; People who knead people: permanent education and the amelioration of manners; Democratainment: television and cultural citizenship; Influx of the feared: democratization, schooling, cultural studies; Clueless? Not! DIY citizenship; (Post-script) Suburbanality (in cultural studies); Glossary of concepts and neologisms; Do-It-Yourself TV studies; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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