Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture

Electronic Hearth: Creating every American Television Culture
 272 pages | Sep 22 2000 |ISBN: 0195079140 | PDF | 5.5 Mb

We all talk about the "tube" or "box," of the same kind with if television were simply another appliance like the refrigerator or toaster oven. But Cecilia Tichi argues that TV is absolutely an environment--a pervasive screen-nature that saturates almost every aspect of fresh life. In Electronic Hearth, she looks at in what manner that environment evolved, and how it, in be changed, has shaped the American experience.