{"product_id":"television-as-digital-media-9780822348870","title":"Television as Digital Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a terrific collection that opens up exciting ways to think about relations between old TV and new digital culture without reifying either of those terms.”—\u003cb\u003eLynn Spigel\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTelevision after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This original collection reframes contemporary debates about new digital media technologies, media convergence, and modes of cultural regulation, production, and consumption.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Morley\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMedia, Modernity, and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Television as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and timely collection. Offering strategies for mapping a fast-changing digital terrain, it is poised to stimulate an important conversation between television studies and the television industry.”—\u003cb\u003eWilliam Uricchio\u003c\/b\u003e, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTelevision as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e will be beneficial to media scholars and students alike…. [D]espite the huge challenge of negotiating the perpetually moving object of digital television, this book provides a useful and eclectic vocabulary for starting to make sense of these shifts.” -- Chuck Tryon * Screen *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]his is a great collection of reflections on the relation of social behavior, technology, and cultural form. It is a must-read for all those who are interested in what digitalization means.” -- Huub Wijfjes * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTelevision as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e presents itself as an enjoyable and informative read, dealing with a variety of aspects that come as a result of the advancements that are shaping the future of digital television.” -- Laura Burlacu * Masters of Media *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTelevision as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable snapshot of current theorizing and critical thinking in this time of technical convergence and social media innovation.” -- Vincent O'Donnell * Cultural Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Taken as a whole, I found \u003ci\u003eTelevision as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e to be consistently excellent…. richly and deliberately engaged with the substantial changes being wrought by adjustments in the technologies, distribution practices, and economics—among many other industrial and cultural facets—that characterize television today.” -- Amanda D. Lotz * Cinema Journal *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTelevision as Digital Media\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important intervention within discussions of television’s relationship to digital culture…. This collection demonstrates that television studies is well equipped to analyze these new objects, providing television scholars in particular, and media studies scholars more broadly, with an important set of tools with which to understand digital media culture.” -- Karen Petruska * Popular Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Television as Digital Media \/ James Bennett 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1\u003cbr\u003eSwitchover: Historicizing the Digital Revolution \u003cbr\u003e Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Digital Television \/ Graeme Turner 31\u003cbr\u003e When Digital Was New: The Advanced Television Technologies of the 1970s and the Control of Content \/ Julian Thomas 52\u003cbr\u003e \"Is It TV Yet?\": The Dislocated Screens of Television in a Mobile Digital Culture \/ William Boddy 76\u003cbr\u003e Part 2\u003cbr\u003eProduction Strategies in the Digital Landscape \u003cbr\u003e Cult Television as Digital Television's Cutting Edge \/ Roberta Pearson 105\u003cbr\u003e Multiplatforming Public Service: The BBC's \"Bundled Project\" \/ Niki Strange 132\u003cbr\u003e Little Kids' TV: Downloading, Sampling, and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experiences of the Digital Era \/ Jeanette Steemers 158\u003cbr\u003e Part 3\u003cbr\u003eThe Aesthetics of Convergence \u003cbr\u003e The \"Basis for Mutual Contempt\": The Loss of the Contingent in Digital Television \/ Karen Lury 181\u003cbr\u003e Television's Aesthetic of Efficiency: Convergence Television and the Digital Short \/ Max Dawson 204\u003cbr\u003e Scripted Spaces: Television Interfaces and the Non-Places of Asynchronous Entertainment \/ Daniel Chamberlain 230\u003cbr\u003e Television, Interrupted: Pollution or Aesthetic? \/ Jason Jacobs 255\u003cbr\u003e Part 4\u003cbr\u003eUser-Generated Content: Producing Digital Audiences \u003cbr\u003e Worker Blowback: User-Generated, Worker-Generated, and Producer-Generated Content within Collapsing Production Workflows \/ John T. Caldwell 283\u003cbr\u003e User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice: Lessons from YouTube \/ Jean Burgess 311\u003cbr\u003e Architectures of Participation: Fame, Television, and Web 2.0 \/ James Bennett 332\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 359\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 373\u003cbr\u003e Index 377","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038662721879,"sku":"9780822348870","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822348870.jpg?v=1750940967","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/television-as-digital-media-9780822348870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}