Locating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of -what is television now?-
The book addresses this question in two interrelated ways:
- by situating the consumption of television within the full range of structures, patterns and practices of everyday life;
- and by retrieving the importance of location as fundamental to these structures, patterns and practices - and, consequently, to the experience of television.
This approach, involving collaboration between authors from cultural studies and cultural anthropology, offers new ways of studying the consumption of television - in particular, the use of the notion of -zones of consumption- as a new means of locating television within the full range of its spatial, temporal, cultural, political and indust
