ISBN:
140516154X
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1405161558
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0470692464
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1281069582
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9781405161541
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9781405161558
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9780470692462
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9781281069580
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 199 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Small Screen : How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Television broadcasting Social aspects
Abstract:
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. Documenting a period when televisions underwent several dramatic changes, this book examines TV as a tool that helped viewers come to terms with the new, fast paced information age
Abstract:
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 negotiating the psychological cha
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-188) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470692462
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470692462
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470692462?systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+be+disrupted+5+Nov+from+10-12+GMT+for+monthly+maintenance
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/ilmenau/toc/524399298.PDF
URL:
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