291 Pages
by
Routledge
Collins focuses on the impact of new television technologies, national policies for television, the effects of internationalisation, television news and documentaries and the likely development of media studies.
Preface 1 Paradigm Lost? 2 Media Studies and Research on Information and Communication Technologies in the UK 3 The Language of Advantage: Satellite Television in Western Europe 4 The Prognosis for Satellite Television in the UK 5 White and Green and not much Re(a)d: The 1988 White Paper on Broadcasting Policy 6 Broadband Black Death Cuts Queues: The Information Society and the UK 7 Wall to Wall Da/las? The Us-UK Trade in Television 8 Broadcasting and National Culture in Canada 9 National Culture: A Contradiction in Terms? 10 Walling Germany with Brass: Theoretical Paradigms in British Studies of Television News 11 Seeing is Believing: The ldeology of Naturalism.Index
Biography
Richard Collins is an experienced lecturer and researcher in television and media studies. He has worked in higher education in Australia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom and he has been an active member of editorial boards for leading media journals.
