The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age - Hardcover

Ott, Brian L.

 
9781405161541: The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 140516154X ISBN 13: 9781405161541
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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 challenges associated with the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age
  • Explores the ways in which television provided viewers with tools for coming to terms with their fears about living in the fast-paced , increasingly diverse, information-laden society of the 90s

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brian L. Ott is a Professor of Communication Studies at Texas Tech University, and Director of the TTU Press. His chief research interest concerns how media equip people to live their everyday lives.

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Treating television as an important socializing force, this book examines how prime-time television in the 1990s equipped viewers to negotiate the transition from the industrial age to the information age. Jam-packed with examples, the book demonstrates how television aided viewers in confronting information overload, identity drift, the increasing pace of life, the guilt of feeling techno-illiterate, and cultural fragmentation.

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Treating television as an important socializing force, this book examines how prime-time television in the 1990s equipped viewers to negotiate the transition from the industrial age to the information age. Jam-packed with examples, the book demonstrates how television aided viewers in confronting information overload, identity drift, the increasing pace of life, the guilt of feeling techno-illiterate, and cultural fragmentation.

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
140516154X
ISBN 13 
9781405161541
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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