Global Television (Publisher series: Wedge--Magazine--Global Television; Wedge--Magazine.)

New York: Wedge Press [0-262-69123-X] 1988. (Trade paperback) 320pp. Very good plus. Illustrations, photographs, diagrams, notes, contributors. A previous owner's name and address in ink on the half-title page. "Today, particularly with the introduction of new technologies and the expanding of existing ones, to assert that television is global is to utter a commonplace. To speak of 'global television' however is quite another thing. Global television refers not only to the international dissemination of television images, but also to the radical restructuring of television as a geopolitical concept. For television has created a space of its own through a unique merger of entertainment and information technologies. Allied with home computers, satellites, and conventional communications systems, television introduces more than just new signs and representations, it also establishes an important new political formation: a class structure based not on wealth, but on access to information" - from the Introduction. Publisher series: Wedge--Magazine (9 / 10 Global Television). (Movies, Communications Industry, Computers, Critical Theory, Digital Media, Essays, Film Criticism, Globalization, Information, Information Technology, Satellites, Television).