Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global tv

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. I. INDUSTRY, PROGRAMS, AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS
5. Convergence Television: Aggregating Form and Repurposing Content in the Culture of Conglomeration 35
6. Lifestyling Britain: The 8–9 Slot on British Television 75
7. What If ?: Charting Television’s New Textual Boundaries 93
8. Interactive Television and Advertising Form in Contemporary U.S. Television 113
9. Flexible Microcastting: Gender, Generation, and Television-Internet Convergence 133
10. II. TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURAL FORM
11. Television’s Next Generation: Technology/ Interface Culture/Flow 157
12. The Rhythms of the Reception Area: Crisis, Capitalism, and the Waiting Room tv 183
13. Broadcast Television: The Chances of Its Survival in a Digital Age 210
14. Double Click: The Million Woman March on Television and the Internet 224
15. III. ELECTRONIC NATIONS, THEN AND NOW
16. One Commercial Week: Television in Sweden Prior to Public Service 243
17. Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global tv 270
18. At Home with Television 303
19. Pocho.com: Reimaging Television on the Internet 324
20. IV. TELEVISION TEACHERS
21. Television, the Housewife, and the Museum of Modern Art 343
22. From Republic of Letters to Television Republic? Citizen Readers in the Era of Broadcast Television 386
23. Cultural Studies, Television Studies, and the Crisis in the Humanities 418
24. Contributors 447
25. Index 451