Public Television For Sale

Media, The Market, And The Public Sphere

William Hoynes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

207 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-30028-9 (ISBN)

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In this analysis of the forces that shape our public television system, sociologist William Hoynes examines the nature of public television's funding structure and its impact on programming, the relationship between public television and the public and the absence of shared goals within public television.

Public television is uniquely positioned in our country to contribute to the invigoration of democratic public life because, ostensibly, it is neither driven by the market nor dominated by the state. In this comprehensive analysis of the forces that shape our public television system, sociologist William Hoynes finds that public television increasi

William Hoynes is assistant professor of sociology at Vassar College.

Public Television: The Historical and Political Context -- The Political Economy of Mass Media -- Early Visions of Public Television -- The Content of Public Television: A Case Study of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour -- Funding and the Politics of Programming -- Audiences, Markets, and the Public -- Goal Ambiguity and Organizational Survival -- Democracy and the Future of Public Television -- Methodological Appendix

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 233 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-30028-1 / 0367300281
ISBN-13	978-0-367-30028-9 / 9780367300289
Zustand	Neuware