Relocating television : television in the digital context /

Originally presented as papers at a symposium organized by the DigiCult research group in Paris in collaboration with the Institut Francais de Presse at the Université de Paris II in October, 2008.Includes bibliographical references and index.The medium of television: changes and continuities. Television in the digital public sphere / Jostein Gripsrud -- TV as time machine: television's changing heterochronic regimes and the production of history / William Uricchio -- "Critical social optics" and the transformations of audio-visual culture / John Corner -- MSN, the Interface / Nick Browne -- Changing genres. Bingeing on box-sets: the national and the digital in television crime drama / Charlotte Brunsdon -- Forward to the past: the strange case of The wire / Erlend Lavik -- The "Bollywoodization" of Indian TV news / Daya K. Thussu -- Amateur images in the professional news stream / Helle Sjvaag and John Bridge -- A new space for democracy? Online media, factual genres and the transformation of traditional mass media / Ib Bondebjerg -- Lifestyle as factual entertainment / Christa Lykke Christensen -- Reception: figures, experience, significance. Television use in new media environments / Barbara Gentikow -- The grey area. A rough guide: television fans, internet forums, and the cultural public sphere / Peter Larsen -- X-factor viewers : X-Factor debate on an Internet debate forum / Anne Jerslev -- The digitally enhanced audience: new attitudes to factual footage / John Ellis -- Digital media, television, and the discourse of smears / Todd Gitlin -- Critical perspectives. The cost of citizenship in the digital age: on being informed and the commodification of the public sphere / Peter Golding -- Networking the commons: convergence culture and the public interest / Graham Murdock -- Smart homes: digital lifestyles practiced and imagined / Lynn Spigel -- Television as a means of transport: Digital teletechnologies and transmodal systems / David Morley