Is the End of Television Coming to an End
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7511673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jérôme Bourdon (0000-0001-5348-8343, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 13 |
| Pages | 80-80 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2213-0969 • E-ISSN: 2213-0969 |
| Publisher | Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc144 |
| OpenAlex | W2804649546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article analyses the discourses of the end of television in relation to its status as a bad object. It traces the early, transnational, massive negative treatments of television. It suggests four explanations for this: sociological (television as a popular medium), economical (disappointing investment), metapsychological (frustrating experience), technological (insincere dispositif). It suggests that discourses of the end are coming to an end, because television is becoming a kind of archive, increasingly considered nostalgically, while its ‘quality series’ are achieving canonical aesthetic status. Finally, it suggests that discourses of the ends are organized into systems of interdependent ‘good’ and ‘bad’ media
Advertising · Business · Coming out · Dead end · End user · End-to-end principle · Epistemology · Interdependence · Media studies · Object (grammar · Quality (philosophy · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Television series · Television studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |