Book description
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…
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1 author picked Online TV as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book came out a few months after the first edition of my book, and I remember being really frustrated because it added so many important ideas.
I still find its interrogation of interfaces and how they interact, open as different tabs, intriguing. Johnson focusses on how online TV functions within an internet ecosystem. This leads to interesting ideas about what TV distributed via the internet means.
From Mareike's list on contemporary television.
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