Ott The Small Screen

How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-76637-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

Television is one of the most important socializing forces incontemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-timetelevision in America during the 1990s.
* * Examines changes that took place in programming, such as therapid adoption of cable, the proliferation of content providers,the development of niche marketing, the introduction ofhigh-definition television, the blurring of traditional genres, andthe creation of new formats like reality-based programming
* Argues that television programmes of the 1990s afforded viewersa symbolic resource for negotiating the psychological challengesassociated with the shift from the Industrial Age to theInformation Age
* Explores the ways in which television provided viewers withtools for coming to terms with their fears about living in thefast-paced , increasingly diverse, information-laden society of the90s

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ott, Brian L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 TV.
5. Television and the Future.
(Re)Viewing the Small Screen.
Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century.
The Next Great Paradigm Shift?.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian L. Ott is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Colorado State University. He is an award winning scholar and teacher, who has published widely in the area of media studies.