This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use o

" Television is taken serious as an inspiration for philosophical concepts " Introducing a new understanding of the historical changing identity of the medium t

Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought an

On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings ga

TV is never short of bad ideas, as demonstrated in a guide to one hundred of television's most memorable blunders and bloopers, arranged in a count-down format