Live Television by Stephanie Marriott - 9780761959106

Live TelevisionTime, Space and the Broadcast Event\nAuthor(s): Stephanie Marriott\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States\nImprint: SAGE Publications Inc\nISBN-13: 9780761959106, 978-0761959106\nSynopsis\n\""The study of television, still the most powerful of modern media, has long been fascinated by its capacity for ?liveness?. Marriott offers an insightful analysis of the complexities of this phenomenon, particularly its increasingly vital connection with the use of new media. A timely contribution to our understanding of media events, 24 hour news and the phenomenology of mediated experience.\"" \n\n- Andrew Tolson, De Montfort University\n\n\""In the steps of Marshall McLuhan and Alfred Schutz, Stephanie Marriott offers us a timely and sustained reflection upon the nature of mediation and the changing qualities of the live experience made possible by television. Elegant, lucid, witty and thought-provoking, her account will become a canonical text in telev.