Description |
x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Comedia series |
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Comedia series.
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Contents |
Television and common knowledge: an introduction -- Pt. I. Public sphere(s). 1. Rights and representations: public discourse and cultural citizenship / Graham Murdock. 2. Media and diasporas / Daniel Dayan. 3. Scholars, journalism, television: notes on some conditions for mediation and intervention / Jostein Gripsrud -- Pt. II. Sociocultural functions. 4. Television as working-through / John Ellis. 5. Rhetoric, play, performance: revisiting a study of the making of a BBC documentary / Roger Silverstone. 6. Mediated knowledge: recognition of the familiar, discovery of the new / Sonia Livingstone. 7. Imaginary spaces: television, technology and everyday consciousness / Peter Larsen -- Pt. III. Genres. 8. Knowledge as received: a project on audience uses of television news in world cultures / Klaus Bruhn Jensen. 9. Finding out about the world from television news: some difficulties / David Morley. 10. Credibility and media development / Anders Johansen |
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11. Documentary: the transformation of a social aesthetic / John Corner. 12. Science on TV: forms and reception of science programmes on French television / Suzanne De Cheveigne |
Summary |
Television and Common Knowledge considers how television can facilitate a well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. The contributors investigate television's role as a means of producing and disseminating knowledge |
Notes |
Based on a colloquium at the University of Bergen in autumn 1995. _ Introduction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Knowledge, Sociology of -- Congresses.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Television -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Television -- Social aspects.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Gripsrud, Jostein, 1952-
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LC no. |
98034504 |
ISBN |
0415189284 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0415189292 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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