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OverviewThe Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate today. Broadcasting grew out of the latent desire by nineteenth-century industrialists, political thinkers, and social reformers to tame an unruly society by controlling how people used their time. The idea manifested itself in the form of the broadcast schedule, a managed flow of information and entertainment that required audiences to be in a particular place - usually the home - at a particular time and helped to create ""water cooler"" moments, as audiences reflected on their shared media texts. Audiences began disconnecting from the broadcast schedule at the end of the twentieth century, but promoters of social media and television services still kept audiences under control, replacing the schedule with surveillance of media use. Author Randall Patnode offers compelling new insights into the intermingled roles of broadcasting and industrial/post-industrial work and how Americans spend their time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Randall PatnodePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9781978820104ISBN 10: 1978820100 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 17 March 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Evolution of Time Consciousness 3. Roots of the Synchronized Society 4. The Rationalization of Radio 5. The Synchronized Society 6. Learning to Love the Clock 7. Television and Latter-Day Synchrony 8. The Decline of Synchrony 9. The Arrhythmic Society 10. From Clock to Click 11. Moving Ahead While Looking Backward Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsPatnode asks a deceptively simple question - why were modern media audiences willing to structure their lives around broadcasting schedules? Only now, as the broadcast era recedes, can that question be posed historically. The book offers a striking new synthesis, linking broadcasting history to the longer history of time management in the US. Recent histories have often been audience-centered; this one reminds us of the imperatives towards rationalization, discipline and efficiency that also shaped modern broadcasting. --David Goodman co-author of New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project Author InformationRANDALL PATNODE teaches about media, communication, and technology at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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