Silverstone (1985) Flashcards
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What does Silverstone (1985) say?
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Television is like a myth, tv appropriates mythic cultures raising various sociological issues. Myth in everyday life is intrinsically bound with tv. Tv culture consists of simple stories easily recognisable and continually reiterated with similar stories from other cultures and countries. The transformative process in reality tv is manifested in the framing of science and specialist knowledge in Tv. Science revolves the demands of myth, with reality + fantasy being blurred. Tv is a contemporary expression of myth. “Public broadcast are the site of contemporary mythic culture”.
