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For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies - the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something important at stake when the forms and functions of television are on the agenda. The digitisation of television concerns the production, contents, distribution and reception of the medium, but also its position in the overall, largely digitised media system and public sphere where the internet plays a dec

The article deals with historical development and current structure of the Chinese television system, historical development of Chinese television news, television news theories and editorial guidelines, news production, television news reforms before 4th June 1989 and news theory and editorial guidelines since 4th June 1989. (DÜI-Sen)

How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content to its most massive industrial coordinates and beyond? In Television Scales, Nick Salvato demonstrates how the problem of scale in the field of television may be turned into a resource and a method for a television studies that would pay better attention to messy medial complexities, peripatetic critical practices, and vulgar psychogeographies. Modeling his investigative practice on the meta-critical writing of social anthropologist Marilyn Strathern in Partial Connections and elsewhere, Salvato composes surprising, partial constellations of television's elements. In the process, his consideration ranges from classic television sitcoms like I Love Lucy to contemporary reality series such as The Biggest Loser, Iron Chef, and House Hunters International. He simultaneously pores over a number of key television phenomena, including technological mystification, performers' charismatic displays, binge viewing, and devoted fandom. An experiment in style and form, Television Scales maps, weighs, and rules television, while also undoing these very strategies for evaluating the medium.

BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS -- JOHN FISKE AND TELEVISION CULTURE -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 SOME TELEVISION, SOME TOPICS, AND SOME TERMINOLOGY -- 2 REALISM -- 3 REALISM AND IDEOLOGY -- 4 SUBJECTIVITY AND ADDRESS -- 5 ACTIVE AUDIENCES -- 6 ACTIVATED TEXTS -- 7 INTERTEXTUALITY -- 8 NARRATIVE -- 9 CHARACTER READING -- 10 GENDERED TELEVISION: FEMININITY -- 11 GENDERED TELEVISION: MASCULINITY -- 12 PLEASURE AND PLAY -- 13 CARNIVAL AND STYLE -- 14 QUIZZICAL PLEASURES -- 15 NEWS READINGS, NEWS READERS -- 16 CONCLUSION: THE POPULAR ECONOMY -- REFERENCES -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX

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This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

Reality TV's impact on television programming and content has been well documented. In recent years, the persistence of reality television as a phenomenon has also been reflected in the number of popular and scholarly publications aimed at its investigation; several books, anthologies, and journal issues have been devoted to various aspects of this kind of programming that straddles the line between the factual and the fictional. The topics discussed in this rich field of inquiry are as varied as the mutations of the reality genre itself. They include audience studies, governmentality, surveillance, voyeurism, digital consumption, ritual, gender, race—the list goes on. ; Bruce, Jean (2009). editorial, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. (34) 1.