Push the Button
Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
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2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2576-4 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2576-4 (ISBN)
Elizabeth Rodwell follows the conflict between mass media conglomerates and independent media creators as they worked to redefine what interactivity meant for Japan’s television industry.
In Push the Button, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media conglomerates took on independent media professionals developing interactive forms from new media. Rodwell argues that at the dawn of a potentially transformative moment in television history, content conservatism has triumphed over technological innovation. Despite the ambition and idealism of Japanese TV professionals and independent journalists, corporate media worked to squelch interactive broadcast projects such as smartphone-playable television and live-streamed and open press conferences before they caught on. Instead, interactive programming in the hands of major TV networks retained the structure and qualities of most other television and maintained conventional barriers between audiences and the actual space of broadcast. Despite their lack of success, the innovators behind these experiments nonetheless sought to expand the possibilities for mass media, national identity, and open journalism.
In Push the Button, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media conglomerates took on independent media professionals developing interactive forms from new media. Rodwell argues that at the dawn of a potentially transformative moment in television history, content conservatism has triumphed over technological innovation. Despite the ambition and idealism of Japanese TV professionals and independent journalists, corporate media worked to squelch interactive broadcast projects such as smartphone-playable television and live-streamed and open press conferences before they caught on. Instead, interactive programming in the hands of major TV networks retained the structure and qualities of most other television and maintained conventional barriers between audiences and the actual space of broadcast. Despite their lack of success, the innovators behind these experiments nonetheless sought to expand the possibilities for mass media, national identity, and open journalism.
Elizabeth Rodwell is Assistant Professor of Information Science Technology at the University of Houston.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Pushing Buttons 1
1. The Interactive Consumer-Viewer: The Social TV Promotion Collective, Ratings, and Advertising 25
2. Interactivity and Gatekeeping: The Compass and the Limits of Conservative Corporate Culture 46
3. Cultures of Independent Journalism: The Free Press Association of Japan, Independent Web Journal, and GoHoo 64
4. The New Interactive Television 89
5. Teaching Citizen Journalism: Media Activism and Our Planet-TV 108
Conclusion 129
Notes 143
Bibliography 163
Index 179
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-2576-X / 147802576X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-2576-4 / 9781478025764 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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