Television and the meaning of live : an enquiry into the human situation / Scannell, Paddy.
2014
TK6630 .S336 2014eb
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Title
Television and the meaning of live : an enquiry into the human situation / Scannell, Paddy.
Author
Scannell, Paddy.
ISBN
9780745679624 (electronic book)
9780745662558
9780745662541
9780745662558
9780745662541
Published
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
Dargwa
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
TK6630 .S336 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.2345
Summary
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 Heideggers 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.
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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 Heideggers 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Part 1: An introduction to the phenomenology of television. Prologue: Heidegger's teacup ; What is phenomenology? ; Available world ; Available self ; Available time ; Turning on the TV set ; Television and technology ; Part 2: Television and the meaning of live. The meaning of live ; How to talk : on radio ; How to talk : on television ; The moment of the goal : on television ; Being in the moment : the meaning of media events ; Catastrophe : on television ; Television and history.