1. HISTORY OF NETWORK MEDIA #7
NETWORKS OF
TELEVISION
L U K E VA N R Y N
P H D C A N D I D AT E
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6. “Just as water, gas and electricity are brought into our
houses … so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory
images, which will appear and disappear at a simple
movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.”
– PA U L V A L E R Y
11. “Television was and is not a desire of so-called
humans, but rather it is largely a civilian byproduct
of military electronics”
–FRIEDRICH KITTLER
12. “This instrument can teach … but it can do so only
to the extent that humans are determined to use it
to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and
lights in a box.”
–EDWARD R. MURROW
14. TELEVISION (SET) STUDIES
materiality of television at the foreground (Morley)
television as public-private threshold (Spigel)
architectures of television (Cromley)
“ambient television” (McCarthy)
inner workings remain opaque (cf. Cubitt)
15. “not so much a visual medium,
more a visual object”
– D AV I D M O R L E Y
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Suburbs
Leisure time
Entertainment technology
33. W H AT I S T V ?
Distributed Technology
Fractured Texts
Myriad Devices
Changing Protocols
Evolving Industry
34. HISTORY OF NETWORKED MEDIA #7
NETWORKS OF TELEVISION
L U K E VA N R Y N
P H D C A N D I D AT E
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