Ebook: Television Truths

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride. This engaging volume, written by one of television's best known scholars, offers a new take on the history of television and an up-to-date analysis of its imaginative content and cultural uses.

• Explores the pervasive, persuasive, and powerful nature of television: among the most criticized phenomena of modern life, but still the most popular pastime ever
  
• Written by John Hartley, one of television’s best known scholars
  
• Considers how television reflects and shapes contemporary life across the economic, political, social and cultural spectrum, examining its influence from historical, political and aesthetic perspectives
  
• Probes the nature of, and future for, television at a time of unprecedented change in technologies and business plans
  
• Provides an up-to-date analysis of content and cultural uses, from the television live event, to its global political influence, through to the concept of the “TV citizen”
  
• Maps out a new paradigm for understanding television, for its research and scholarship, and for the very future of the medium itself

Content:
Chapter 1 Television Truths Argumentation of TV (pages 1–13):
Chapter 2 The Value Chain of Meaning (pages 19–35):
Chapter 3 Public Address Systems Time, Space, and Frequency (pages 36–60):
Chapter 4 Television and Globalization (pages 61–73):
Chapter 5 Television, Nation, and Indigenous Media (pages 77–95):
Chapter 6 A Television Republic? (pages 96–125):
Chapter 7 Reality and the Plebiscite (pages 126–160):
Chapter 8 From a “Wandering Booby” to a Field of Cows the Television Live Event (pages 163–181):
Chapter 9 Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self (pages 182–199):
Chapter 10 Sync or Swim? Plebiscitary Sport and Synchronized Voting (pages 200–220):
Chapter 11 “Laughs and Legends” or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History (pages 223–242): With Joshua Green and Jean Burgess
Chapter 12 Television in Knowledge Paradigms (pages 243–260):