Description
Book SynopsisTelevision 2.0 sets out to document and interrogate shifting patterns of engagement with digital television. Television content has not only been decoupled from the broadcast schedule through the use of digital video recorders (DVRs) but from broadcasting itself through streaming platforms such as Netflix, Vimeo and YouTube as well as downloading platforms such as iTunes and The Pirate Bay. Moreover, television content has been decoupled from the television screen itself as a result of digital convergence and divergence, leading to the proliferation of computer and mobile screens. Television 2.0 is the first book to provide an in-depth empirical investigation into these technological affordances and the implications for viewing and fan participation. It provides a historical overview of television's central role as a broadcast medium in the household as well as its linkages to participatory culture. Drawing on survey and interview data, Television 2.0 offers c
Trade Review
“Despite its pervasiveness in our mediated lives, ‘television’ as a digital entity is a fraught term. In Television 2.0, Rhiannon Bury unites television studies, audience research, fan studies, and new media analysis to uncover new and exciting ways to understand that-which-used-to-be-a-box. Pushing past common assumptions about the death of television, Bury re-engages television scholarship through fan interviews, qualitative and quantitative methods, historical methods, and empirical research. In Television 2.0, Bury rereads today’s television as a reassemblage of content, fandom, and participation—a social technology in the digital age. A must-read!” Paul Booth, author of Digital Fandom 2.0, Playing Fans and Time on TV
“The ‘2.0’ label may have become a buzzword, but Television 2.0 skillfully puts streaming/downloading hype to the test. Rhiannon Bury draws brilliantly on original empirical data to show how television today remains crucially framed by both domestic and affective relations. Hybridising Deleuzian theory with classic TV studies’ work from the likes of Roger Silverstone and James Lull, Television 2.0 explores the fascinating assemblages and reassemblages of contemporary TV. And Bury makes a vital intervention into debates around fandom and participatory culture by introducing the notion of a ‘participatory continuum.’ Television 2.0 is provocative and compelling, well evidenced and astutely argued; I am already a devoted fan of this book.” Matt Hills, author of Fan Cultures and co-director of the Centre for Participatory Culture, University of Huddersfield
"Television 2.0 ... is a brief and insightful study about the consumption of TV in (primarily) Western countries at the beginning of the XXI century. The book is an informative resource for both academics and students working on and interested in television, new media and fandom." Deborah Castro, Convergence 25(2), 2019
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Introduction – Assembling Television: From the Radio to the Internet – Household Assemblers: Patterns of Multiscreen and Multimodal Viewing –Television 2.0 and Everyday Life – Affect and the Television Text – Fandom 2.0: Six Degrees of Participation – Conclusion: Rhizomatic for the People – Appendix: Television 2.0 Survey Questions – References – Index.
