Flow TV Television in the Age of Media Convergence [Paperback]

From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object.

Flow TVexamines television in an age of technological, economic, and cultural convergence. Seeking to frame a new set of concerns for television studies in the 21^stcentury, this collection of all new essays establishes televisions continued importance in a shifting media culture. Considering television and new media not as solely technical devices, but also as social technologies, the essays in this anthology insist that we turn our attention to the social, political, and cultural practices that surround and inform those devices' use. The contributors examine television through a range of critical approaches from formal and industrial analysis to critical technology studies, reception studies, political economy, and critiques of television's transnational flows. This volume grows out of the critical community formed around the popular online journal Flow: A Critical Form on Television and Media Culture(flowtv.org). It is ideal for courses in television studies or media convergence.

Introduction

Part I: The Convergent Experience: Viewing Practices Across Media Forms

1. Media Interfaces, Networked Media Spaces, and the Mass Customization of Everyday Space, Daniel Chamberlain

2. It's Just Like a Mini-Mall : Textuality and Participatory Culture on YouTube, David Gurney

3. TiVoing Childhood: Time-Shifting a Generation's Concept of Television, Jason Mittell

4. Affective Convergence in Reality Television: A Case Study in Divergence Culture, Jack Bratich

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