How Television Invented New Media - Couverture souple

Murphy, Sheila C.

 
9780813550053: How Television Invented New Media
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ISBN 10 : 081355005X ISBN 13 : 9780813550053
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Now if I just remembered where I put that original TV play device--the universal remote control . . .

Television is a global industry, a medium of representation, an architectural component of space, and a nearly universal frame of reference for viewers. Yet it is also an abstraction and an often misunderstood science whose critical influence on the development, history, and diffusion of new media has been both minimized and overlooked. How Television Invented New Media adjusts the picture of television culturally while providing a corrective history of new media studies itself.

Personal computers, video game systems, even iPods and the Internet built upon and borrowed from television to become viable forms. The earliest personal computers, disguised as video games using TV sets as monitors, provided a case study for television's key role in the emergence of digital interactive devices. Sheila C. Murphy analyzes how specific technologies emerge and how representations, from South Park to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog, mine the history of television just as they converge with new methods of the making and circulation of images. Past and failed attempts to link television to computers and the Web also indicate how services like Hulu or Netflix On-Demand can give rise to a new era for entertainment and program viewing online. In these concrete ways, television's role in new and emerging media is solidified and finally recognized.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sheila C. Murphy is an assistant professor in the screen arts and cultures department at the University of Michigan.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081355005X
ISBN 13 
9780813550053
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2011
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