Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation
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Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation

Television and the Meaning of 'Live': An Enquiry into the Human Situation

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Paddy Scannell (Author)  

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This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of 'life'. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger's fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-historical character of life today. To explore these questions, the agenda of sociology - its concern with economic, political and cultural life - is set aside. Being in the world is not, in the first (or last) instance, a social but an existential question, as an existential enquiry into television today discovers. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.
Paddy Scannell is professor in the department of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He was one of the early pioneers of media studies, and a founding editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
  • Contributor: Paddy Scannell
  • Imprint: Polity Press
  • ISBN13: 9780745662541
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Packaged Dimensions: 145x229x25mm
  • Packaged Weight: 544
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Release Date: 2013-12-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Paddy Scannell is professor in the department of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He was one of the early pioneers of media studies, and a founding editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.

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