Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part one An introduction to the phenomenology of television; Prologue: Heidegger's teacup; 1 What is phenomenology?; 2 Available world; 3 Available self; 4 Available time; 5 Turning on the TV set; 6 Television and technology; Part two Television and the meaning of live; 7 The meaning of live; 8 How to talk -- on radio; 9 How to talk -- on television; 10 The moment of the goal -- on television; 11 Being in the moment: the meaning of media events; 12 Catastrophe -- on television; 13 Television and history; Notes; References; Index
Summary
This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of 'life'. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger's fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the
