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Informationen zum Autor James Bennett is head of area for Media, Information, and Communications at London Metropolitan University. Beginning in April 2011, he will be Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Television Personalities: Stardom and the Small Screen and a co-editor of Film and Television After DVD.Niki Strange is the founder of Strange Digital, a company providing research and strategy consulting for digital businesses and the culture, education, and public sectors. She is also a research fellow at the University of Sussex. Zusammenfassung Taking into account technologies! industries! economies! aesthetics! and various production! user! and audience practices! this collection of essays rethinks television and the future of television studies in the digital era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Television as Digital Media / James Bennett 1 Part 1>Convergence and Divergence: The International Experience of Digital Television / Graeme Turner 31 When Digital Was New: The Advanced Television Technologies of the 1970s and the Control of Content / Julian Thomas 52 "Is It TV Yet?": The Dislocated Screens of Television in a Mobile Digital Culture / William Boddy 76 Part 2>Cult Television as Digital Television's Cutting Edge / Roberta Pearson 105 Multiplatforming Public Service: The BBC's "Bundled Project" / Niki Strange 132 Little Kids' TV: Downloading, Sampling, and Multiplatforming the Preschool TV Experiences of the Digital Era / Jeanette Steemers 158 Part 3>The "Basis for Mutual Contempt": The Loss of the Contingent in Digital Television / Karen Lury 181 Television's Aesthetic of Efficiency: Convergence Television and the Digital Short / Max Dawson 204 Scripted Spaces: Television Interfaces and the Non-Places of Asynchronous Entertainment / Daniel Chamberlain 230 Television, Interrupted: Pollution or Aesthetic? / Jason Jacobs 255 Part 4>Worker Blowback: User-Generated, Worker-Generated, and Producer-Generated Content within Collapsing Production Workflows / John T. Caldwell 283 User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice: Lessons from YouTube / Jean Burgess 311 Architectures of Participation: Fame, Television, and Web 2.0 / James Bennett 332 Bibliography 359 Contributors 373 Index 377...
