Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium and how that differs from the normal assumptions of domestic viewing space
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Examines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium and how that differs from the normal assumptions of domestic viewing space
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-303) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Public Lives of TV; PART I : HISTORIES AND INSTITUTIONS: Rhetorics of TV Spectatorship Outside the Home ; 1 TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s NeighborhoodTavern; 2 Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the PostwarDepartment Store; 3 Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s; PART I I : PLACES AND PRACTICES: Reading TV Installations in Daily Life ; 4 Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens; 5 Television at the Point of Purchase; 6 Television While You Wait; 7 Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Videofor Public Places; Notes; Works Cited