Originally presented as papers at a symposium organized by the DigiCult research group in Paris in collaboration with the Institut Francais de Presse at the UniversiteĢ de Paris II in October, 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The medium of television: changes and continuities -- Television in the digital public sphere -- TV as time machine: television's changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history -- "Critical social optics" and the transformations of audio-visual culture -- MSN, the Interface -- Changing genres -- Bingeing on box-sets: the national and the digital in television crime drama -- Forward to the past: the strange case of The wire -- The "Bollywoodization" of Indian TV news -- Amateur images in the professional news stream -- A new space for democracy? Online media, factual genres and the transformation of traditional mass media -- Lifestyle as factual entertainment -- Reception: figures, experience, significance -- Television use in new media environments -- The grey area -- A rough guide: television fans, internet forums, and the cultural public sphere -- X-factor viewers : X-Factor debate on an Internet debate forum -- The digitally enhanced audience: new attitudes to factual footage -- Digital media, television, and the discourse of smears -- Critical perspectives -- The cost of citizenship in the digital age: on being informed and the commodification of the public sphere -- Networking the commons: convergence culture and the public interest -- Smart homes: digital lifestyles practiced and imagined -- Television as a means of transport: Digital teletechnologies and transmodal systems.
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