Description |
xii, 251 pages ; 25 cm |
Series |
Current debates in broadcasting, 0963-6544 ; 4/5 |
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Current debates in broadcasting ; 4/5
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Contents |
The post-broadcasting age: passing painfully into the postmodern / Nod Miller and Rod Allen -- Keynote address: Future imperfect: media, information and the millennium / Roger Silverstone -- The technological rollercoaster: will we enjoy the ride? / Helen Cunningham, Pam Mills, Alan Morris and Steve Barnett -- Democracy down the tube: can the fractured small screen play a role in the democratic process? / James Fishkin, Judith Mackay, Phillip Whitehead and Suzanne Franks -- Testing the boundaries: will the old regulatory system survive? / Ted Mercer, Michael Redley, Jane Vizard and Russell Twisk -- Home shopping: when the going gets tough, the tough stay home? / Peter van Gelder, Garrett O'Leary, Peter Wenban and Rod Allen -- What price independence? / Chris Griffin, Brian Harper Lewis, Sheila Rodgers and Jerry Kuehl -- Face the Symposium / Bob Phillis and Gillian Reynolds -- The future of regulation / Colin Shaw -- Spoilt for Choice: the particular in pursuit of the palatable / Mike Davis -- Five hundred channels -- Keynote address: Diversity, regions and communities / Gillian Reynolds -- Does regional culture matter? / Steve Avery, Colin Fletcher, Phil Wood and Rod Allen -- New regions for old / Paul Bonner, Duncan Dallas, John Whiston and Sue Caro -- Whose news? / Brian Hill, Peter Salmon, Richard Whiteley and Ruth Pitt -- Is commerce the enemy of diversity and creativity? / John Blake, Steve Clark, Ray Fitzwalter, Paul Watson, Don Webb and Jaci Stephen -- Nurturing professionalism in the post-broadcasting age / Colin Young -- Face the Symposium / Steve Morrison and Rod Allen -- Select Committee: the participatory exercise / John Gray |
Summary |
"In its most recent debates, the University of Manchester Broadcasting Symposium looks at the increasing fragmentation of television broadcasting, and at the effects of the convergence of television, computer and communications technologies. To what extent will the structures and cultural forms of broadcasting as we currently know them survive into the next millennium? Will there still be room for regional broadcasting, for independent producers, for schedules? Can - or should - a five hundred channel environment be subject to regulation? Or is the future mainly composed of video-on-demand and home shopping delivered on the Internet rather than over the airwaves? In two sessions of the Symposium, contributors from television's present and future contribute their reasoned assessments of the future shape of the medium; in a wide-ranging group of papers, programming, legal, technical, cultural and regulatory issues are examined thoroughly, and ways forward through the future are charted."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
Broadcasting |
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Great Britain |
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Broadcasting |
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Great Britain |
Notes |
"Published with the generous support of Channel 4 Television." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Great Britain -- History.
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Author |
Allen, Rod.
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Miller, Nod.
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University of Manchester Broadcasting Symposium (25th : 1994)
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University of Manchester Broadcasting Symposium (26th : 1995)
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