Prismatic TelevisionYvette Bogaard 3114805

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Today’s Program

• Introduction

• Television Industry

• Mimetic Texts

• Sociocultural Experience

• Discussion/Example

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Introduction

• Prismatic Television?

• Goal: ‘To approach the multifarious reality of television in order to conceptually bring it within the framework of the discussion of the public sphere, through without claiming to exhaust all possible aspects of the medium’

• Discussion instead of Conclusion

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Television Industry• Definitions

• Professionalism

• Political Economy

• ‘The Phatic’

• Public Television

• Commercial Television

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Example

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Mimetic Televisual Texts

• Mimetic: Imitating

• Polysemic Quality

• Meaning

• Created when viewed

• Social

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Changing Meaning

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Codes

• Natural

• Technical

• Integrative

• Together determine Realism

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Realism

• TV like the real - Verisimilitude

• TV about the real - Veracity

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Sociocultural Experience

• Viewers interpret, reflect and interact

• Part of Discourse Daily life

• Linking Framework

• We live in a television culture!

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Television Shapes and gives Perspective

• Language, Understanding and Behaviour

• TV Social Commonsense

• TV Ubiquit Physically

• TV Easy Accesible

Pervasive

• TV is everywhere

• Normality of every day life

• Safe Topic

• Stabilizes powerrelations

Fiske: Pleasure in TV

• Active Involvement

• Unconsience Experience, Pastime

Translations service

• Recast the Unfamiliar Safe and Accesible

• Shift in Knowledge (Local Non-Local)

Ideology

• Implicit social knowledge provider

• Hidden values

Newssource and Trusthworthy

• Position of prominence

• New Media??

Television as Prism

• “Critical political economy”

• Mimetic Televisual texts

• Sociocultural experience

Critical Political Economy

• Professionalism

• Political Economy

Mimetic Televisual texts

• Construction of Meaning

• Codes

• Realism

Sociocultural Experience

• TV is all around

• Defines and shapes our behaviour

• Recasts the unfamilliar

Discussion

De grote Donorshow

Donorshow

• Is the Donorshow a Good Thing?

• Should hoaxes like these be allowed?

Questions?