Television : a biography /
David Thomson.
- 304 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available when and how viewers want it. This critical history could not be more timely.
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Television--History. Television--Social aspects. Media Studies. Media Studies.