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Communication Matters
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Communication Matters

by Jeremy Packer, Stephen B. Crofts Wiley
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
11h 21m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 20

Flow and mobile media

Broadcast fixity to digital fluidity

Kathleen Oswald and Jeremy Packer

 

In this chapter, we argue for an updated and materialist understanding of the concept flow as a means for examining how mobile media function to create free subjects amenable to neoliberal configurations of governance and capital. Raymond Williams first described flow in his 1974 book Television: Technology and Cultural Form (1974/2003) as the televisual techniques used to maintain audiences’ attention to the television screen, at times for several consecutive hours. Williams was trying to understand how disparate television content (news, sports, movies, commercial advertisements, public service announcements, game shows, etc.) were made ...

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