- "Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television."
Focuses on the history, content and effects of television programming.
Television History: Covers the evolution and development of television technology and programming from its inception to its present-day state.
Television Genres: Explores the different genres of television programming, such as drama, comedy, reality TV, news, and sports.
Television Theory: Examines the various theories and approaches to studying television, including cultural studies, audience reception, media effects, and political economy.
Television Production: Covers the process of creating TV programs, including writing, casting, directing, producing, and editing.
Television Criticism: Analyzes and evaluates TV programs and their cultural significance, including their representation of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
Television and Society: Explores the impact of television on society and culture, including its influence on politics, education, and cross-cultural communication.
Television Industry: Studies the business of television, including programming strategies, advertising, ownership, and regulation.
Global Television: Examines the global reach of television and its impact on cultural diversity, globalization, and cultural imperialism.
Television Technology: Covers the technical aspects of television, including transmission, reception, and digital technology.
Television and the Internet: Explores the relationship between television and the internet, including streaming services, social media, and digital convergence.
- "Usually, it is distinguished from mass communication research, which tends to approach the topic from a social sciences perspective."
- "Defining the field is problematic; some institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies or classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "One form of television studies is roughly equivalent to the longer-standing discipline of film studies in that it is often concerned with textual analysis."
- "Analyses of quality television, such as Cathy Come Home and Twin Peaks, have attracted the interests of researchers for their cinematic qualities."
- "Yet other approaches center more on the social functions of television."
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts, which is commonly known as audience theory or reception theory."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Some institutions and syllabuses do not distinguish it from media studies."
- "Some institutions and syllabuses...classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "Analyses of quality television...have attracted the interests of researchers for their cinematic qualities."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts, which is commonly known as audience theory or reception theory."
- "Some institutions and syllabuses...classify it as a subfield of popular culture studies."
- "Television studies can also incorporate the study of television viewing and how audiences make meaning from texts."
- No specific quote directly answers this question.
- "One form of television studies is often concerned with textual analysis."