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Description:: Television's history has at numerous points been punctuated by pronouncements that technological innovations will improve its programming, empower its audiences, and heal the injuries it has inflicted on American society. This enduring faith in the inevitability and imminence of television's technological salvation is the subject of this dissertation. "TV Repair"...
Keyword:: technology, convergence, television, and new media
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Bret Maxwell Dawson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/08/2018
Date Modified:: 10/08/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project explores historical questions of televisual form and cultural production, centering on the proliferation of media texts that mobilize real-life misfortune as a form of entertainment in U.S. television and culture. Specifically, it examines how a variety of "reality" formats in contemporary television stage and exploit spectacles of failure,...
Keyword:: television, media, and schadenfreude
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Amber Eliza Watts
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/11/2018
Date Modified:: 09/11/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-12
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In the age of what George W. Bush has called a global democratic revolution, the freedom to consume an ever-expanding variety of images and goods in the global marketplace is often equated with the conditions of democratic freedom. With just such rhetorical elisions in mind, this dissertation examines the discursive...
Keyword:: media and politics, spectacle, television, popular entertainment, rhetoric, and liberalism
Subject:: Media, Technology and Society
Creator:: Meghan A Sutherland
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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