Mediated Space

Conclusion

When Ravi Baichwal screamed at the sound of a car crashing into the street-side television studio of Chicago’s ABC7 News in 2007, the normally resilient seal around the mediated space of television production was broken, and the news began (enthusiastically) to report on itself. This book is inspired not by the silver Mazda that drove through the floor-to-ceiling glass window of the studio, but rather by what happened next: the human inquisitiveness that brought a crowd together outside in sub-zero temperatures to gawp and look behind the curtain at how these spaces are made. The public realm of the street was no longer a soundproofed backdrop demonstrating currency and proximity, and the studio was no longer a hermetically sealed ...