Williams R. Television: Technology and cultural form

Routledge, 2003. — 172 p.This book is an attempt to explore and describe some of the relationships between television as a technology and television as a cultural form. In the contemporary debate about the general relations between technology, social institutions and culture, television is obviously an outstanding case. Indeed its present importance, as an element in each of these areas, and as a point of interaction between them, is in effect unparalleled.The technology and the society
Institutions of the technology
The forms of television
Programming: distribution and flow
Effects of the technology and its uses
Alternative technology, alternative uses?Selected Bibliography