Media, Information and Technoculture 3222A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Juvenile Delinquency, Raymond Williams
7 Feb 2017
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Week 3: theory, history, ontology: television september 30th 2015. Technological definition: transmission & reproduction of images. A metaphor: emphasizes some features over others. A socially realized structure: dependent upon use. Seeing by electricity: ex: 1882 pictures of television viewing. Grassroots television: amateur experiments 1930s = tv kits. Development of standards (1938) ended grassroots experiments. Broadcasting as a metaphor: agriculture reference (spreading seeds by hand: desig(cid:374)ates a (cid:272)e(cid:374)tralized s(cid:455)ste(cid:373): co(cid:374)te(cid:374)t (cid:862)i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded a(cid:374)d suited(cid:863) for distri(cid:271)ution. Fuer: events are broadcast as they occur. Gripsrud: tvs differentia specifica (points of difference: technological limitations: film: 1950s + videos: 1960s. Reduces the gap between events & users: emphasizes simultaneity, projects immediacy or presence. Important to tv today: news, sports, reality programming, promise of the unexpected (imagined community/experiencing things in real time) Ex: i(cid:374)ead o"co(cid:374)(cid:374)or rippi(cid:374)g a photo of the pope o(cid:374) li(cid:448)e tv o(cid:374) nl (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1006) Liveness = reality: related to photo effect. Aesthetics of liveness: video instead of film.
