Sur la télévision - Pierre Bourdieu
- In french. First published in 1996.
This book presents, in a quite synthetic and clear manner, what research about television had taught us. It explains what are the mechanisms behind the invisible censorship affecting the small screen and offers to see some of the secret tricks used in producing images and topics of communication. It also covers how television, which dominates the world of journalism, had profoundly impacted diverse area such as the art, the literature, the philosophy, the politics and even the justice and the science, having induced a logic of audience and its correlated commercial requirements to them.
-> Interesting reading about how shaping the world of television, through a.o. ownership, content management and financial goals, affect the access to information and canalise debates while reducing the scope of broader discussions. Even though the book has been written in 1996, and only confirms what we all know, it is still very much accurate and brings a sense of "resignation" to the witnessing of some facts of life which are here to stay...
This book presents, in a quite synthetic and clear manner, what research about television had taught us. It explains what are the mechanisms behind the invisible censorship affecting the small screen and offers to see some of the secret tricks used in producing images and topics of communication. It also covers how television, which dominates the world of journalism, had profoundly impacted diverse area such as the art, the literature, the philosophy, the politics and even the justice and the science, having induced a logic of audience and its correlated commercial requirements to them.
-> Interesting reading about how shaping the world of television, through a.o. ownership, content management and financial goals, affect the access to information and canalise debates while reducing the scope of broader discussions. Even though the book has been written in 1996, and only confirms what we all know, it is still very much accurate and brings a sense of "resignation" to the witnessing of some facts of life which are here to stay...