The Indecent Screen : Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century
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| Title: | The Indecent Screen : Regulating Television in the Twenty-First Century |
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| Description: | The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment. Simultaneously, ever increasing channel capacity, new forms of distribution, and time-shifting (in the form of streaming and on-demand viewing options) radically changed how, when, and what we watch. But instead of these innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen. |
| Authors: | Cynthia Chris |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Television broadcasting--Censorship--United States, Television--Law and legislation--United States, Television--Censorship--United States, Obscenity (Law)--United States |
| Categories: | PERFORMING ARTS / General, ART / Art & Politics, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Communication Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, television professionals, the Federal Communications Commission, and TV audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on the decency debates during an approximately twenty-year period since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which in many ways restructured the media environment. Simultaneously, ever increasing channel capacity, new forms of distribution, and time-shifting (in the form of streaming and on-demand viewing options) radically changed how, when, and what we watch. But instead of these innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen. |
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| ISBN: | 9780813594064 9780813594071 9780813594088 9780813594101 |
