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Cultural Form and Media Flows: Rereading Raymond Williams’s Television

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James Cisneros

Résumé de la communication

In his early study of television, Williams places the phenomenon of “flow” at the center of broadcasting conceived both as a technology and as a cultural form. Flow has its own logic of dissemination and reception, establishing a peculiar kind of temporal and cultural experience that diverges historically and materially from those of other communication systems. While recent technological developments—many of which Williams anticipates in his closing chapter—raise questions concerning the relevance of flow as a measure of television’s specificity, they also point towards a growing importance of flow conceived as a cultural form. Indeed, since Williams coined the term for Television, it has become central to considerations of digital information’s constant movement, if not its ubiquity and velocity, and to theorizations of media’s impact on notions of place and cultural specificity (Castells, Urry, Appadurai). In this paper we propose to situate the concept of “flow” in the context of current discussions on the media landscape.

Résumé du colloque

Le colloque se situe tout juste après la vingtième année du décès de Raymond Williams, et marque ainsi le début d'une relecture critique de cette oeuvre que le monde francophone a encore à découvrir. Comme nous savons également que des traductions (vers le français) de certaines oeuvres de Williams sont en cours, nous croyons contribuer ainsi à élargie la réception critique de cette oeuvre qui est appelée à être davantage connue dans le domaine des sciences de la culture.

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