Uses of Television

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
(Pre-script) Per-sona: selves, knowledge, books......Page 12
What are the uses of television studies? A modern archaeology......Page 26
TV studies as cross-demographic communication......Page 38
Television as transmodern teaching......Page 49
Teaching not power: ideological atrocities and improper questions......Page 59
Knowledge, television and the \'textual tradition\'......Page 66
Brief encounters, khaki shorts and wilful blindness: television without television......Page 82
Housing television: a film, a fridge and social democracy......Page 103
Democracy as defeat: the social eye of cultural studies......Page 123
Schools of thought: desire and fear; discourse and politics......Page 138
People who knead people: permanent education and the amelioration of manners......Page 151
Democratainment: television and cultural citizenship......Page 165
Influx of the feared: democratization, schooling, cultural studies......Page 177
Clueless? Not! DIY citizenship......Page 188
(Post-script) Suburbanality (in cultural studies)......Page 200
Glossary of concepts and neologisms......Page 215
Do-It-Yourself TV studies......Page 236
References......Page 246
Index......Page 253