Television at Work
Industrial Media and American Labor
Seiten
2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-085578-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-085578-9 (ISBN)
Television has never been exclusive to the home. In Television at Work, Kit Hughes explores the forgotten history of how U.S. workplaces used television to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and manage the hearts, minds, and bodies of twentieth century workers.
Challenging our longest-held understandings of the medium, Hughes positions television at the heart of a post-Fordist reconfiguration of the American workplace revolving around dehumanized technological systems. Among other things, business and industry built private television networks to distribute programming, created complex CCTV data retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. In uncovering industrial television as a prolific sphere of media practice, Television at Work reveals how labor arrangements and information architectures shaped by these uses of television were foundational to the rise of the digitally mediated corporation and to a globalizing economy.
Challenging our longest-held understandings of the medium, Hughes positions television at the heart of a post-Fordist reconfiguration of the American workplace revolving around dehumanized technological systems. Among other things, business and industry built private television networks to distribute programming, created complex CCTV data retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. In uncovering industrial television as a prolific sphere of media practice, Television at Work reveals how labor arrangements and information architectures shaped by these uses of television were foundational to the rise of the digitally mediated corporation and to a globalizing economy.
Kit Hughes is Assistant Professor of Media and Visual Culture in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Persistence of [a] Vision: the Electronically Mediated Corporation
Prehistory
Chapter 2: "To extend vision beyond the horizon, to see the unseen": Industrial Television in the Post-War Era
Flow
Chapter 3: Frankly Boring and Agonizingly Slow: Television Moves to the Office
Immediacy
Chapter 4: The Other Format Wars: Cartridges, Cassettes, and Making Home Work
Time-shifting
Chapter 5: "The People's Network": Soft Management with Satellite Business Television
Narrowcasting
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 25 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 570 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-085578-9 / 0190855789 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-085578-9 / 9780190855789 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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