Authors: Peter d'Agostino (Editor), David Tafler
ISBN-13: 9780803942684, ISBN-10: 0803942680
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: September 1994
Edition: Second Edition
Today, information is exchanged across an expanding spectrum, from divergent sources, in a multiplicity of applications. This new theory of transmission extends its vision beyond the boundaries of television to the still-shifting territories of interactive media. The chapters in Transmission investigate the impact of video and interactivity and virtual reality on the social, cultural, and economic environment of television. Comparing the recent past with the present--and the immediate future--this groundbreaking work examines aesthetic values as they are shaped by gender, race, and class issues. Since video looks at how television (mis)represents culture, Transmission examines the effects of communication tools and technologies on its participating constituents. An important volume for any scholar or student in the areas of media studies, mass communication, cultural studies, or popular culture.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Lost Generations | 1 |
2 | Surrealism Without the Unconscious | 21 |
3 | Women Watching Television: Issues of Class, Gender, and Mass Media Reception | 53 |
4 | The Whole World Is Watching | 91 |
5 | Video/Television/Rodney King: Twelve Steps Beyond The Pleasure Principle | 105 |
6 | The Case of the A-Bomb Footage | 121 |
7 | The Television Image and Collective Amnesia: Dis(re)membering the Persian Gulf War | 135 |
8 | Guerrilla Television | 151 |
9 | Will the Revolution Be Televised? Camcorders, Activism, and Alternative Television in the 1990s | 165 |
10 | The Aboriginal Invention of Television in Central Australia 1982-1986 | 189 |
11 | Interactive Television | 219 |
12 | Boundaries and Frontiers: Interactivity and Participant Experience - Building New Models and Formats | 235 |
13 | Virtual Realities: Recreational Vehicles for a Post-Television Culture? | 269 |
Bibliography | 284 | |
Index | 289 | |
About the Authors | 297 |