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Title Television and common knowledge / edited by Jostein Gripsrud
Published New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Comedia series
Comedia series.
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
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
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Subject Knowledge, Sociology of -- Congresses.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Television -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Television -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Gripsrud, Jostein, 1952-
LC no. 98034504
ISBN 0415189284 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0415189292 (paperback: alk. paper)