Popularizing Japanese TV: The Cultural, Economic, and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367583590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str.

Hakan Ergül

Opis

Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view, detailing and interpreting the cultural, economic, and emotional dimensions of this communication phenomenon from an ethnographic perspective by drawing on observations in TV stations in Sendai and Tokyo.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. "No TV. No Life!" The Centrality of Television and Infotainment in Contemporary Japan 2. Backstage Tales: Infotainment Under Construction 3. Television for Sale by Owner: The Political Economy of Infotainment 4. Infotainment, Intimacy, and Crafting a Televisual Uchi 5. Discussion, Implications, Conclusions

O autorze

Hakan Ergül is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Hacettepe University, Ankara. He received his MA from Anadolu University, Turkey and his PhD from the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Japan. Between 2013 and 2018 he lived in Rabat, Morocco, where he taught at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and worked as a communication expert for UNHCR Morocco. Currently he lives in Belgrade, Serbia. He has teaching and fieldwork experience in the areas of media ethnography, media and vulnerable groups, everyday life studies, Turkish and Japanese television, and has published books and articles pertaining to these fields.