On television /
Pierre Bourdieu ; translated from the French by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson.
- New York : New Press, c1998.
- 104 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88) and index.
"On Television exposes the invisible mechanisms of manipulation and censorship that determine what appears on the small screen. Bourdieu shows how the ratings game has transformed journalism - and hence politics - and even such seemingly removed fields as law, science, art, and philosophy." "Bourdieu had long been concerned with the role of television in cultural and political life when he bypassed the political and commercial control of the television networks and addressed his country's viewers from the television station of the College de France. On Television, which expands on that lecture, not only describes the limiting and distorting effect of television on journalism and the world of ideas, but offers the blueprint for a counterattack."--Jacket.
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