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Author: Paddy Scannell (University of Michigan)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Polity Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9780745662558
ISBN 10: 0745662552
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 06 December 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Taking a refreshing phenomenological perspective, Paddy Scannell offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of the way live radio and television capture and disclose the everyday human situation. A remarkable intellectual achievement by one of the most influential theorists of communication, this book will definitely enrich and deepen our understanding of the central role of broadcasting in our lived experience. Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Roma, author of The Age of Television Can a phenomenology of « live » broadcasting illuminate the nature of everyday human situations? Paddy Scannell daringly answers : yes. The meaning of « Live » has much to tell us about the meaning of « Life » . Inspired by Heidegger's Being and Time, this brilliant and provocative book challenges us to unlock media theory from the relentless embrace of sociologism. Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique & Institut d'etudes Politiques, Paris Using television, Paddy Scannell examines our situatedness in the world and carves out a strikingly fresh approach to media analysis. A seminal contribution--perceptive and humane. Carolyn Marvin, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
<p> Television and the Meaning of Live is an important and exciting book, which helps one to see television, and media in general, in new ways. More than this, it is a book that can help one to see the world as a whole anew, as befits the task of unconcealment that was Heidegger's goal. It cannot be recommended highly enough. Critical Studies in Television Taking a refreshing phenomenological perspective, Paddy Scannell offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of the way live radio and television capture and disclose the everyday human situation. A remarkable intellectual achievement by one of the most influential theorists of communication, this book will definitely enrich and deepen our understanding of the central role of broadcasting in our lived experience. Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Roma, author of The Age of Television <p> Can a phenomenology of « live » broadcasting illuminate the nature of everyday human situations? Paddy Scannell daringly answers : yes. The meaning of « Live » has much to tell us about the meaning of « Life » . Inspired by Heidegger s Being and Time, this brilliant and provocative book challenges us to unlock media theory from the relentless embrace of sociologism. Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique & Institut d etudes Politiques, Paris <p> Using television, Paddy Scannell examines our situatedness in the world and carves out a strikingly fresh approach to media analysis. A seminal contribution--perceptive and humane. Carolyn Marvin, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
''Taking a refreshing phenomenological perspective, Paddy Scannell offers a thoughtful and compelling analysis of the way live radio and television capture and disclose the everyday human situation. A remarkable intellectual achievement by one of the most influential theorists of communication, this book will definitely enrich and deepen our understanding of the central role of broadcasting in our lived experience.''Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Roma, author of The Age of Television''Can a phenomenology of « live broadcasting illuminate the nature of everyday human situations? Paddy Scannell daringly answers: yes. The meaning of « Live has much to tell us about the meaning of « Life . Inspired by Heidegger's Being and Time, this brilliant and provocative book challenges us to unlock media theory from the relentless embrace of sociologism.''Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche scientifique & Institut d'etudes Politiques, Paris''Using television, Paddy Scannell examines our situatedness in the world and carves out a strikingly fresh approach to media analysis. A seminal contribution--perceptive and humane.''Carolyn Marvin, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Author Information
Paddy Scannell is professor in the department of communication studies at the University of Michigan. He was one of the early pioneers of media studies, and a founding editor of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
