1st Edition

Television and Common Knowledge

Edited By Jostein Gripstrud Copyright 1999
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Grouped into thematic sections, contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographical gulfs that characterise modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific tv genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programmes, considering the changing ways in which they attempt to inform audiences, and how they are actually made meaningful by viewers.

    Television and common knowledge: an introduction PART I Public sphere(s) 1 Rights and representations: public discourse and cultural Citizenship 2 Media and diasporas 3 Scholars, journalism, television: notes on some conditions for mediation and intervention PART II Sociocultural functions 4 Television as working-through 5 Rhetoric, play, performance: revisiting a study of the making of a BBC documentary 6 Mediated knowledge: recognition of the familiar, discovery of the new 7 Imaginary spaces: television, technology and everyday consciousness PART III Genres 8 Knowledge as received: a project on audience uses of television news in world cultures 9 Finding out about the world from television news: some difficulties 10 Credibility and media development 11 Documentary: the transformation of a social aesthetic 12 Science on TV: forms and reception of science programmes on French television

    Biography

    Jostein Gripsrud in Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

    'contains an impressive range of contributions' - Keith Negus, Goldsmith's College, University of London