Live Television: Time, Space and the Broadcast Event

摘要

Starting with the Langs' famed study of the 1951 MacArthur Day parade, scholars have been fascinated by the mediated realities conveyed by live broadcast television. Sixty years later, a question is whether new media opportunities, from YouTube to Tivo, have rendered obsolete this time-honored subject. From the UK has come an affirmative answer. Inspired by "the consequences of media convergence," Scottish author Stephanie Marriott upholds the live TV camera as an ongoing "object of experience." No longer bound to "a living room" but now "streamed to a computer or a mobile phone," she observes, live programs continue to "restructure the world."