As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting's role as vox populi has come under threat. With contributions from key scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, this volume examines the crisis facing public broadcasting today by analyzing the institution's development, its presentday operations, and its prospects for the future. Covering everything from globalization and the rise of the Internet, to key issues such as race and class, to specific subjects such as advertising, public...
As federal funding for public broadcasting wanes and support from corporations and an elite group of viewers and listeners rises, public broadcasting'...
Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and get a life. So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely stop to ask: what are these stories? How do they shape our lives? And why do they matter?The authors ably guide readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way they show the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances, and the myriad ways storytelling orders information and...
Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and get a life. So much of our daily life consis...
This work guides readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way it shows the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material constraints on narrative performances and the ways storytelling orders information and tasks, constitutes meanings and positions speaking subjects.
This work guides readers through the complex world of performing narrative. Along the way it shows the embodied contexts of storytelling, the material...
