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With
growth in access to high-speed broadband and 4G, and increased ownership of
smartphones, tablets and internet-connected television sets, the internet has
simultaneously begun to compete with and transform television. Online TV argues that these
changes create the conditions for an emergent internet era that challenges the
language and concepts that we have to talk about television as a medium.
In a wide-ranging analysis, Catherine Johnson sets out a series
of conceptual frameworks designed to provide a clearer language with which to
analyse the changes to television in the internet era and to bring into focus
the power dynamics of the online TV industry.
From providing definitions of online TV and the online TV
industry, to examining the ways in which technology, rights, interfaces and
algorithms are used to control and constrain access to audiovisual content, Online TV is a timely
intervention into debates about contemporary internet and television cultures.
A must-read for any students, scholars and practitioners who want to understand
and analyse the ways in which television is intertwining with and being
transformed by the internet.
Chapter 1: From broadcast to online TV
Chapter 2: Defining online TV
Chapter 3: Online TV industry and technologies
Chapter 4: Online TV content production and distribution
Chapter 5: Online TV interfaces
Chapter 6: Online TV data and algorithms
Conclusion: The volatility of online TV
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