Brian L Ott

Small Screen

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Produktbeschreibung

Treating television as an important socializing force, this book examines how prime-time television in the 1990s equipped viewers to negotiate the transition from the industrial age to the information age. Jam-packed with examples, the book demonstrates how television aided viewers in confronting information overload, identity drift, the increasing pace of life, the guilt of feeling techno-illiterate, and cultural fragmentation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 473g
• ISBN-13: 9781405161541
• ISBN-10: 140516154X
• Artikelnr.: 22739634

Autorenporträt

Brian L. Ott is a Professor of Communication Studies at Texas Tech University, and Director of the TTU Press. His chief research interest concerns how media equip people to live their everyday lives.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents.

Preface.

1. Television and Social Change.

The Times They Are a-Changin'.

Television as Public Discourse.

2. Life in the Information Age.

The Information Explosion.

Society through the Lens of Technocapitalism.

Social Anxieties in the Information Age.

3. Hyperconscious Television.

Embracing 'the Future': The Attitude of Yes.

The Simpsons as Exemplar.

Symbolic Equipments in Hyperconscious TV.

4. Nostalgia Television.

Celebrating 'the Past': The Attitude of No.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Exemplar.

Symbolic Equipments in Nostalgia TV.

5. Television and the Future.

(Re)Viewing the Small Screen.

Life and Television in the Twenty-First Century.

The Next Great Paradigm Shift?.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"In The Small Screen, Brian L. Ott explores how UStelevision of the 1990s met the Information Age. With theoreticalclarity and acute critical analysis of content and form in thetelevision experience, Ott illustrates how some Americans embracedthe future through hyperconscious television while otherscelebrated the past through nostalgia. A breakthrough study."
Thomas W. Benson, Pennsylvania StateUniversity

"Brian L. Ott's book is accessible to students andvaluable for professional scholars. It integrates a wide range ofcontemporary scholarship at a high level of sophistication withoutever falling into jargon or postmodern dogma. This volume will becutting edge in the rhetorical study of television."
Barry Brummett, University of Texas-Austin

"...ultimately what is pleasing about Ott's book is itswillingness to take television seriously..."
M/C Reviews

"Ott...hints at the coming identity crisis as theconnected age replaces the information age. Summing Up:Recommended."
Choice

"Ott's distinctions between hyperconscious andnostalgic programming serve as fine distinctions for consideringthe cultural significance of television."
PsycCritiques