Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture
by John Hartley
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Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses. Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most show more popular pastime ever Written by John Hartley, one of television's best known scholars Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectives Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the "TV citizen" Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself show lessTags
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John Hartley is John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, Western Australia and Professor of Journalism Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales Recent books include Cultural Science (2014) Key Concepts in Creative Industries (2013) and Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies (2012). He is Editor of show more International Journal of Cultural Studies. Jean Burges is Associate Professor of Digital Media at Queensland University of Technology. She is co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (2009) and co-editor of Twitter and Society (2014) and Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012) Axel Burns is Professor and AFC Future Fellow, ARC Centre for creative Industries and Innovation, Queenstand University of Technology. He is author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005) and co-editor of Twitter and Society (2015) and Uses of Blogs (2006). show less
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- Nonfiction
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- 302.2345 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Mass Communication & Media Communication Media (Means of communication) Motion pictures, radio, television Television
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- PN1992.6 .H366 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Broadcasting Television broadcasts
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