Kit Hughes

Television at Work

Industrial Media and American Labor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how work, television, and waged labor come to have meaning in our everyday lives by describing the forgotten history of twentieth century workplace television. Analyzing how businesses used television to shape employees' relationships to their labor in order to secure industrial efficiency and support corporate expansion, Television at Work challenges long-held understandings of the "domestic" medium. It also offers a critical prehistory of the use of digital technologies to extend the workday and advance understandings of labor that revolve around dehumanized technological systems and information flows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190855796
• ISBN-10: 0190855797
• Artikelnr.: 56870250

Autorenporträt

Kit Hughes is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Persistence of [a] Vision: the Electronically Mediated
Corporation
* Prehistory
* Chapter 2: "To extend vision beyond the horizon, to see the unseen":
Industrial Television in the Post-War Era
* Flow
* Chapter 3: Frankly Boring and Agonizingly Slow: Television Moves to
the Office
* Immediacy
* Chapter 4: The Other Format Wars: Cartridges, Cassettes, and Making
Home Work
* Time-shifting
* Chapter 5: "The People's Network": Soft Management with Satellite
Business Television
* Narrowcasting
* Conclusion
* Acknowledgements