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Consuming Television

Author : Bob Mullan
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631202332
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Television written by Bob Mullan and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about. Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production)

Consuming Environments

Author : Mike Budd
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813525921
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Environments written by Mike Budd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of how much TV people watch, why they watch too much, and what they see. The authors argue that while people may have good reasons for watching television, they seem to be unaware that such habits might be harmful to their environmental health. The book examines how advertising and media companies have shaped the commercial content of most television, tracing industry motives and operations and their increasing concentration in fewer hands.

Consuming Technologies

Author : Roger Silverstone
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415069908
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Technologies written by Roger Silverstone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.

An Introduction to Television Studies

Author : Jonathan Bignell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415419174
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Television Studies written by Jonathan Bignell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive textbook, newly updated for its second edition, Jonathan Bignell provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including audience research, television history and broadcasting policy, and the analytical study of individual programmes. Features for the second edition include: a glossary of key terms key terms defined in margins suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter activities for use in class or as assignments new and updated case studies discussing advertisements such as the Guinness ‘Surfer’ ad, approaches to news reporting, television scheduling, and programmes such as Big Brotherand Wife Swap. Individual chapters address: studying television, television histories, television cultures, television texts and narratives, television and genre, television production, postmodern television, television realities, television representation, television you can’t see, shaping audiences, television in everyday life.

Consuming Religion

Author : Kathryn Lofton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648209X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Religion written by Kathryn Lofton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: being consumed -- Practicing commodity. Binge religion: social life in extremity ; The spirit in the cubicle: a religious history of the American office -- Revising ritual. Ritualism revived: from scientia ritus to consumer rites ; Purifying America: rites of salvation in the soap campaign -- Imagining celebrity. Sacrificing Britney: celebrity and religion in America ; The celebrification of religion in the age of infotainment -- Valuing family. Religion and the authority in American parenting ; Kardashian nation: work in America's klan ; Rethinking corporate freedom -- Corporation as sect. On the origins of corporate culture ; Do not tamper with the clues: notes on Goldman Sachs -- Conclusion: family matters

Consuming History

Author : Jerome de Groot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134148933
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Consuming History written by Jerome de Groot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In Consuming History, Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyzes a wide range of cultural entities – from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools – to analyze how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groot probes how museums have responded to the heritage debate and the way in which new technologies have brought about a shift in access to history, from online game playing to internet genealogy. He discusses the often conflicted relationship between ‘public’ and academic history, and raises important questions about the theory and practice of history as a discipline. Whilst mainly focussing on the UK, the book also compares the experiences of the USA, France and Germany. Consuming History is an important and engaging analysis of the social consumption of history and offers an essential path through the debates for readers interested in history, cultural studies and the media.

Consuming Power

Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262640381
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Power written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy? David Nye shows that this is less a question about the development of technology than it is a question about the development of culture. In Consuming Power, Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. He looks at how these activities changed as new energy systems were constructed, from colonial times to recent years. He also shows how, as Americans incorporated new machines and processes into their lives, they became ensnared in power systems that were not easily changed: they made choices about the conduct of their lives, and those choices accumulated to produce a consuming culture. Nye examines a sequence of large systems that acquired and then lost technological momentum over the course of American history, including water power, steam power, electricity, the internal-combustion engine, atomic power, and computerization. He shows how each system became part of a larger set of social constructions through its links to the home, the factory, and the city. The result is a social history of America as seen through the lens of energy consumption.

Complex TV

Author : Jason Mittell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814738850
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Complex TV written by Jason Mittell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and sustained analysis of the development of storytelling for television Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has transformed American television. One of the most notable impacts of these shifts is the emergence of highly complex and elaborate forms of serial narrative, resulting in a robust period of formal experimentation and risky programming rarely seen in a medium that is typically viewed as formulaic and convention bound. Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of television narrative, focusing on how storytelling has changed in recent years and how viewers make sense of these innovations. Through close analyses of key programs, including The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Mad Men the book traces the emergence of this narrative mode, focusing on issues such as viewer comprehension, transmedia storytelling, serial authorship, character change, and cultural evaluation. Developing a television-specific set of narrative theories, Complex TV argues that television is the most vital and important storytelling medium of our time.

Television and the Quality of Life

Author : Robert Kubey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136691472
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Television and the Quality of Life written by Robert Kubey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this unusual book explores whether television is a boon or a detriment to family life; how people feel and think before, during, and after television viewing; what causes television habits to develop; and what causes heavy viewing -- and what heavy viewing causes -- in the short and long term. Television and the Quality of Life also compares the viewing experience cross-nationally using samples from the United States, Italy, Canada, and Germany -- and then interprets the findings within a broad theoretical and historical framework that considers how information use and daily activity contribute to individual, familial, societal, and cultural development.

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture

Author : Alison F. Slade
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498506178
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture written by Alison F. Slade and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The contributors explore a diverse array of television personalities, shows, media outlets, and fan activities in their analysis, including: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Paula Deen; Community, Game of Thrones, Duck Dynasty, Toddlers and Tiaras, Talking Dead, Breaking Bad, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army Wives, The Newsroom, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; as well as ESPN’s TrueHoop Network and Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie; and cosplay.

Buying and Believing

Author : Steven Kemper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226430409
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Buying and Believing written by Steven Kemper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colombo also domesticate the imagination, insinuating images into people's minds of the traditional as well as the modern, the local as much as the global. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted over thirty years, Kemper examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to "Sri Lankanize" commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially producing new forms of Sri Lankan culture. Addressing many of the most pressing agendas of contemporary anthropology, Buying and Becoming breaks new ground in studies of culture and globalization.

Television Drama in Israel

Author : Itay Harlap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501328913
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Television Drama in Israel written by Itay Harlap and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sources on the international TV drama market, when serials such as Homeland, Hostages, Fauda, Zaguory Empire and In Treatment were bought by international networks, HBO included. Offering both a textual reading and discourse analysis of contemporary Israeli television dramas, Itay Harlap adopts a case study approach in order to address production, reception and technological developments in its accounts. His premise is that the meeting point between social trends within Israeli society (primarily the rise of opposition groups to the hegemony of the Zionist-Jewish-masculine-Ashkenazi ideologies) and major changes in the medium in Israel (which are comparable to international changes that have been titled "post-TV"), led to the creation of television dramas characterized by controversial themes and complex narratives, which present identities in ways never seen before on television or in other Israeli mediums.

Applied Evolutionary Psychology

Author : S. Craig Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199586071
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Applied Evolutionary Psychology written by S. Craig Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to overtly consider how basic evolutionary thinking is being applied to a wide range of special social, economic, and technical problems. It draws together a collection of renowned academics from a very disparate set of fields, whose common interest lies in using evolutionary thinking to inform their research.

Culture, Communication, and National Identity

Author : Richard Collins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802067722
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Communication, and National Identity written by Richard Collins and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.' So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada's political sovereignty depends much less on Canadian content in television than has generally been accepted. His analysis focuses on television drama, at the centre of television policy in the 1980s. Collins questions the conventional image of Canada as a weak national entity undermined by its population's predilection for foreign television. Rather, he argues, Canada is held together, not by a shared repertoire of symbols, a national culture, but by other social forces, notably political institutions. Collins maintains that important advantages actually and potentially flow from Canada's wear national symbolic culture. Rethinking the relationships between television and society in Canada may yield a more successful broadcasting policy, more popular television programming, and a better understanding of the links between culture and the body politic. As the European Community moves closer to political unity, the Canadian case may become more relevant to Europe, which, Collins suggests, already fears the ?Canadianization? of its television. He maintains that a European multilingual society, without a shared culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a political entity ? just as Canada has.

The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health

Author : Miriam Nelson
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605290688
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health written by Miriam Nelson and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical and interactive guide shows women how to optimize their potential for health and well-being through in-depth information, self-assessment quizzes, and checklists to determine individual risk factors for common ailments and more serious diseases. Dr. Miriam Nelson shares the preventative measures that can be taken now to avoid such health problems down the road. From sexual and reproductive health to beauty, heart health, emotional well-being, bone and muscle health, and weight control, The Strong Women's Guide to Total Health offers a complete picture of the broad spectrum of issues that impact overall health. It is essential reading for women of all ages.

Ephemeral Media

Author : Paul Grainge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838715568
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Ephemeral Media written by Paul Grainge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephemeral Media explores the practices, strategies and textual forms helping producers negotiate a fast-paced mediascape. Examining dynamics of brevity and evanescence in the television and new media environment, this book provides a new perspective on the transitory, and transitional, nature of screen culture in the early twenty-first century.

Cultural Diversity and Global Media

Author : Eugenia Siapera
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405180463
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Diversity and Global Media written by Eugenia Siapera and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Diversity and Global Media explores the relationship between the media and multiculturalism. Summarises and critically discusses current approaches to multiculturalism and the media from a global perspecive Explores both the theoretical debates and empirical findings on multiculturalism and the media Assumes the new perspective of mediation of cultural diversity, which critically combines elements of previous theories in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between the media and cultural diversity Explores media ‘moments’ of production, representation and consumption, while incorporating arguments on their shifting roles and boundaries Examines separately the role of the internet, which is linked to many changes in patterns of media production, representation and to increased possibilities for diasporic and transnational communication Contains pedagogical features that enable readers to understand and critically engage with the material, and draws upon and reviews an extensive bibliography, providing a useful reference tool.