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The small screen : how television equips us to live in the information age / Brian L. Ott.

By: Ott, Brian LContributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470692462; 0470692464; 9780470766378; 0470766379; 1281069582; 9781281069580Subject(s): Television broadcasting -- Social aspects | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies | Television broadcasting -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Small screen.DDC classification: 302.23/45 LOC classification: PN1992.6 | .O88 2007ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Television and Social Change -- The Times They Are a45;Changin8217; -- Television as Public Discourse -- Chapter 2 Life in the Information Age -- The Information Explosion -- Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism -- Social Anxieties in the Information Age -- Chapter 3 Hyperconscious Television -- Embracing 8216;the Future8217;58; The Attitude of Yes -- The Simpsons as Exemplar -- Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV -- Chapter 4 Nostalgia Television -- Celebrating 8216;the Past8217;58; The Attitude of No -- Dr46; Quinn44; Medicine Woman as Exemplar -- Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV -- Chapter 5 Television and the Future -- 40;Re41;Viewing the Small Screen -- Life and Television in the Twenty45;First Century -- The Next Great Paradigm Shift63; -- References -- Index -- Last Page.

Summary: Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Documenting a period when televisions underwent several dramatic changes, this book examines TV as a tool that helped viewers come to terms with the new, fast paced information age.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-188) and index.

Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Documenting a period when televisions underwent several dramatic changes, this book examines TV as a tool that helped viewers come to terms with the new, fast paced information age.

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