Bennett / Strange / Spigel Television as Digital Media

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9365-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing passions

Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices, this collection of essays rethinks television and the future of television studies in the digital era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, James

Strange, Niki

Spigel, Lynn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Turner, Graeme

Thomas, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Television as Digital Media / James Bennett 1

Part 1
Switchover: Historicizing the Digital Revolution

Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Digital Television / Graeme Turner 31

When Digital Was New: The Advanced Television Technologies of the 1970s and the Control of Content / Julian Thomas 52

"Is It TV Yet?": The Dislocated Screens of Television in a Mobile Digital Culture / William Boddy 76

Part 2
Production Strategies in the Digital Landscape

Cult Television as Digital Television's Cutting Edge / Roberta Pearson 105

Multiplatforming Public Service: The BBC's "Bundled Project" / Niki Strange 132

Little Kids' TV: Downloading, Sampling, and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experiences of the Digital Era / Jeanette Steemers 158

Part 3
The Aesthetics of Convergence

The "Basis for Mutual Contempt": The Loss of the Contingent in Digital Television / Karen Lury 181

Television's Aesthetic of Efficiency: Convergence Television and the Digital Short / Max Dawson 204

Scripted Spaces: Television Interfaces and the Non-Places of Asynchronous Entertainment / Daniel Chamberlain 230

Television, Interrupted: Pollution or Aesthetic? / Jason Jacobs 255

Part 4
User-Generated Content: Producing Digital Audiences

Worker Blowback: User-Generated, Worker-Generated, and Producer-Generated Content within Collapsing Production Workflows / John T. Caldwell 283

User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice: Lessons from YouTube / Jean Burgess 311

Architectures of Participation: Fame, Television, and Web 2.0 / James Bennett 332

Bibliography 359

Contributors 373

Index 377

Über Autor(innen)

James Bennett is head of area for Media, Information, and Communications at London Metropolitan University. Beginning in April 2011, he will be Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen and a co-editor of Film and Television After DVD.Niki Strange is the founder of Strange Digital, a company providing research and strategy consulting for digital businesses and the culture, education, and public sectors. She is also a research fellow at the University of Sussex.