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Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences
Sarah Arnold
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Description for Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences
Hardback. Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFDT; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
The way we watch television is changing. While consumption of traditional broadcast television is going down, consumption of non-traditional platform television including subscription viewing, box-set series and online streaming is going up. This is the first study to consider the ways in which recent technologies of television can be understood in terms of the gendering of audiences. Taking a viewer-based approach, Sarah Arnold shows how old claims that television is a female medium are now being called into question, due to changes in the spatial practices of viewing and developments in content. Though film has commonly been characterised as 'masculine' ... Read more
The way we watch television is changing. While consumption of traditional broadcast television is going down, consumption of non-traditional platform television including subscription viewing, box-set series and online streaming is going up. This is the first study to consider the ways in which recent technologies of television can be understood in terms of the gendering of audiences. Taking a viewer-based approach, Sarah Arnold shows how old claims that television is a female medium are now being called into question, due to changes in the spatial practices of viewing and developments in content. Though film has commonly been characterised as 'masculine' ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780769769
SKU
V9781780769769
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About Sarah Arnold
Sarah Arnold is Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at University College Falmouth (UK). She is the author of Maternal Horror: Melodrama and Motherhood (2013) and co author, with Mark De Valk, of The Film Handbook (2013).
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