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Culture, Services, Knowledge: Television between policy regimes

Cunningham, Stuart D. (2005) Culture, Services, Knowledge: Television between policy regimes, in Wasko, Janet, Eds. A Companion to Television, chapter 10, pages pp. 199-213. Blackwell Publishing.

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Abstract

The chapter takes an explicit policy-oriented focus and tracks television as it has been or could be deliberated on across policy ‘regimes’. These three grids of understanding – ‘culture’, ‘services’, and ‘knowledge’ - also serve as historical and/or possible rationales for state intervention in television, as well as the industry’s own understandings of its nature and role. To emphasize the dynamic, overlapping and in part contesting nature of these regimes, I use Raymond Williams’ (1981: 204) distinction between residual, dominant and emergent cultural forces. The first, residual, regime, that of cultural policy, is of well-established vintage for television but is under siege. The second, the dominant, the service industry model, is the most widespread regime. The third, emergent, regime, the place of television in the knowledge economy, is embryonic at this stage of its development.

Item Type:Book Chapter
Status:Published
Place of Publication:Malden, MA :
Keywords:Television; cultural policy; innovation policy; BBC
Subjects:420000 Language and Culture > 420300 Cultural Studies
400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media
ID Code:2441
Deposited By:Cunningham, Stuart D
Deposited On:11 November 2005
Alternative Locations:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=140510094X
Copyright Owner:Copyright 2005 Blackwell Publishing
Additional Information:For more information about this book please refer to the publisher's website (see link) or contact the author . Author contact details : s.cunningham@qut.edu.au