first essay

Worth 20% of final mark
Due Monday 16 August, 3pm
1500 words

Assignment One Questions

1. Choose two major critical approaches to television studies and assess their respective strengths and limitations. What do you think is necessary to provide a dynamic, successful analysis of television as a cultural form?
   
   
2. Identify three important characteristics of everyday life and demonstrate their relevance to television studies.
   
   
3. Roger Silverstone argues that "Television has become embedded in the complex cultures of our own domesticity." Discuss television’s relations to cultural discourses of domesticity and the practices of a domestic consumer culture.
   
   
4. How does television function to simulate public spatiality and/or provide a means for the production of public identifications, social relations, and the negotiation of public affairs? You might like to address this topic in relation to a specific form of television or social issue.
   
   
5. Television has often been implicated in the consolidation of national identities and the dissemination of global meaning. Discuss the effects of national and/or global cultures on contemporary television. You might like to address this topic in relation to a specific form of television or social issue.