Push the button : interactive television and collaborative journalism in Japan / Elizabeth Rodwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodwell, Elizabeth, 1978- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interactive television--Japan.

Interactive television.

Interactive television--Social aspects--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 185 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Interactive television and collaborative journalism in Japan

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"In Push the Button, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media conglomerates took on independent media professionals developing interactive forms from new media. Rodwell argues that at the dawn of a potentially transformative moment in television history, content conservatism has triumphed over technological innovation. Despite the ambition and idealism of Japanese TV professionals and independent journalists, corporate media worked to squelch interactive broadcast projects such as smartphone-playable television and live-streamed and open press conferences before they caught on. Instead, interactive programming in the hands of major TV networks retained the structure and qualities of most other television and maintained conventional barriers between audiences and the actual space of broadcast. Despite their lack of success, the innovators behind these experiments nonetheless sought to expand the possibilities for mass media, national identity, and open journalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pushing Buttons

The Interactive Consumer-Viewer: The Social TV Research Collective, Ratings, and Advertising

Interactivity and Gatekeeping: The Compass and the Limits of Conservative Corporate Culture

Cultures of Independent Journalism: The Free Press Association of Japan, Independent Web Journal, and GoHoo

The New Interactive Television

Teaching Citizen Journalism: Media Activism and Our Planet-TV.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Rodwell, Elizabeth, 1978- Push the button.

ISBN:

9781478027898

1478027894

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.