Overview
Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographicgulfs that characterize modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific TV genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programs,
considering the changing ways in which they attempt to inform audiences, and how they are actually made meaningful by viewers.
Contributors: Suzanne de Cheveignon, John Corner, Daniel Dayan, John Ellis, Jostein Gripsrud, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Anders Johansen, Peter Larsen, Sonia
Livingstone, Graham Murdock, David Morley, Roger Silverstone and Eliséo Véron
Synopsis
Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographic gulfs that characterize modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific TV genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programs, considering the changing ways in which they attempt to inform audiences, and how they are actually made meaningful by viewers.
Contributors: Suzanne de Cheveignon, John Corner, Daniel Dayan, John Ellis, Jostein Gripsrud, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Anders Johansen, Peter Larsen, Sonia Livingstone, Graham Murdock, David Morley, Roger Silverstone and Eliséo Véron
Booknews
In 12 essays that grew out of a research program at the University of Bergen, Norway, scholars of communication, media, and social sciences examine television as a vehicle for informed citizenship. They examine how knowledge is produced and circulated across the social and cultural borders of modern society, and the broader social and cultural functions that television has for its audiences. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)