Television and Common Knowledge

Herausgeber: Gripstrud, Jostein

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Produktbeschreibung

Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Grouped into thematic sections, contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographical gulfs that characterise modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific tv genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programmes, considering the changing ways in which they attempt to inform audiences, and how they are actually made meaningful by viewers. Suzanne de Chiveigne, John corner, Daniel Dayan, John Ellis, Jostein Gripsrud, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Anders Johansen, Peter Larsen, Sonia Livingstone, Graham Murdock, Dave Morley, Roger Silverstone,

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780415189293
• ISBN-10: 0415189292
• Artikelnr.: 21332570

Autorenporträt

Jostein Gripsrud in Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Television and common knowledge: an introduction PART I Public sphere(s) 1
Rights and representations: public discourse and cultural Citizenship 2
Media and diasporas 3 Scholars, journalism, television: notes on some
conditions for mediation and intervention PART II Sociocultural functions 4
Television as working-through 5 Rhetoric, play, performance: revisiting a
study of the making of a BBC documentary 6 Mediated knowledge: recognition
of the familiar, discovery of the new 7 Imaginary spaces: television,
technology and everyday consciousness PART III Genres 8 Knowledge as
received: a project on audience uses of television news in world cultures 9
Finding out about the world from television news: some difficulties 10
Credibility and media development 11 Documentary: the transformation of a
social aesthetic 12 Science on TV: forms and reception of science
programmes on French television