Categories
Digital Life(style)

The Digital Revolution? #MediaLit14 with @drbexl & @tim_hutchings for @codecuk

This morning’s pre-coffee session for #MediaLit14 – has there been a digital revolution, and if so, what might it look like?:

Categories
History Reviewer

Domesticating the Airways

Looks like an interesting book:

This book sets out to retell the history of the intimate relationship between broadcasting and domesticity. Set against a backdrop of changing social relations from the 1930s to the present day, it looks at some of the ways in which radio and television in the UK have represented the home to listeners and viewers encountering their programmes in domestic space. This story of a public medium negotiating its reception in private space is – literally and figuratively – a familiar one.

Read full story.