Television at Work

Industrial Media and American Labor
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-085579-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Television has never been exclusive to the home. In Television at Work, Kit Hughes explores the forgotten history of how U.S. workplaces used television to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and manage the hearts, minds, and bodies of twentieth century workers.

Challenging our longest-held understandings of the medium, Hughes positions television at the heart of a post-Fordist reconfiguration of the American workplace revolving around dehumanized technological systems. Among other things, business and industry built private television networks to distribute programming, created complex CCTV data retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. In uncovering industrial television as a prolific sphere of media practice, Television at Work reveals how labor arrangements and information architectures shaped by these uses of television were foundational to the rise of the digitally mediated corporation and to a globalizing economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Kit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Chapter 1: The Persistence of [a] Vision: the Electronically Mediated Corporation

- Prehistory

- Chapter 2: "To extend vision beyond the horizon, to see the unseen": Industrial Television in the Post-War Era

- Flow

- Chapter 3: Frankly Boring and Agonizingly Slow: Television Moves to the Office

- Immediacy

- Chapter 4: The Other Format Wars: Cartridges, Cassettes, and Making Home Work

- Time-shifting

- Chapter 5: "The People's Network": Soft Management with Satellite Business Television

- Narrowcasting

- Conclusion

- Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Kit Hughes is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.