By Allison Perlman
From viral video clips on YouTube to cellular tv on smartphones and past, television has overflowed its obstacles. If Raymond Williams' notion of stream demanding situations the assumption of a discrete tv textual content, then convergence destabilizes the suggestion of tv as a discrete object.
Flow TV examines tv in an age of technological, financial, and cultural convergence. trying to body a brand new set of matters for tv reviews within the 21st century, this selection of all new essays establishes television’s persisted significance in a moving media tradition. contemplating tv and new media no longer as exclusively technical units, but additionally as social applied sciences, the essays during this anthology insist that we flip our realization to the social, political, and cultural practices that encompass and tell these units' use. The participants research tv via more than a few serious methods from formal and commercial research to serious expertise experiences, reception reviews, political financial system, and evaluations of television's transnational flows. This quantity grows out of the serious neighborhood shaped round the well known on-line magazine Flow: A severe shape on tv and Media Culture (flowtv.org). it truly is perfect for classes in tv reviews or media convergence.
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