TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ott,Brian L.
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - The small screen: how television equips us to live in the information age 
SN  - 9780470692462
AV  - PN1992.6 .O88 2007eb
U1  - 302.23/45 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Malden, MA
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Television broadcasting
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-188) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470692462
ER  -