Television

Bibliographic Data

ID23737152
AuthorsLaurie Ouellette (corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-12-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781444361506.wbiems019
OpenAlexW4252221677
ISBN9781444361506
LanguageEN
References cited22

This chapter traces the history of television in the United States in relation to broader societal conditions and changes. Rejecting the assumption that technological advances are inevitable or necessarily progressive, it situates evolving “stages” of television as complex responses to the shifting demands and contradictions of advanced liberal capitalist democracies. Events and ruptures in television's development as a cultural form are discussed in the context of three conjunctures – mass television, niche television, and post television. At a moment of dizzying technological change, the chapter emphasizes the importance of history and the need to look beyond the shiny surface of the new, to consider how the transformation of broadcasting intersects with a broader reconfiguration of the “social forms” (work, family, geography, market, government) in which we live.

Broadcasting (networking) · Context (archaeology) · Government (linguistics) · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Media Studies and Communication

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