In "Television as Digital Media," scholars from Australia, the
United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies
with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital
culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies,
aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices,
the contributors develop a new critical paradigm for thinking about
television, and the future of television studies, in the digital
era. The collection brings together established and emerging
scholars, producing an intergenerational dialogue that will be
useful for anyone seeking to understand the relationship between
television and digital media.
Introducing the collection, James Bennett explains how
television as digital media is a non-site-specific, hybrid cultural
and technological form that spreads across platforms such as mobile
phones, games consoles, iPods, and online video services, including
YouTube, Hulu and the BBC's iPlayer. Television as digital media
threatens to upset assumptions about television as a mass medium
that has helped define the social collective experience, the
organization of everyday life, and forms of sociality. As often as
we are promised the convenience of the television experience
"anytime, anywhere," we are invited to participate in communities,
share television moments, and watch events live. The essays in this
collection demonstrate the historical, production, aesthetic, and
audience changes and continuities that underpin the emerging
meaning of television as digital media.
"Contributors." James Bennett, William Boddy, Jean Burgess, John
Caldwell, Daniel Chamberlain, Max Dawson, Jason Jacobs, Karen Lury,
Roberta Pearson, Jeanette Steemers, Niki Strange, Julian Thomas,
Graeme Turner
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