Television as digital media / edited by James Bennett and Niki Strange.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-372) and index.

Convergence and divergence : the international experience of digital television / Graeme Turner -- When digital was new : the advanced television technologies of the 1970s and the control of content / Julian Thomas -- "Is it TV yet"? The dislocated screens of television in a mobile digital culture / William Boddy -- Cult television as digital television's cutting edge / Roberta Pearson -- Multiplatforming public service : the BBC's "Bundled project" / Niki Strange -- Little kids' TV : downloading, sampling, and multiplatforming the preschool TV experiences of the digital era / Jeanette Steemers -- The "basis for mutual contempt" : the loss of the contingent in digital television / Karen Lury -- Television's aesthetic of efficiency : convergence television and the digital short / Max Dawson -- Scripted spaces : television interfaces and the non-places of asynchronous entertainment / Daniel Chamberlain -- Television, interrupted : pollution or aesthetic? / Jason Jacobs -- Worker blowback : user-generated, worker-generated, and producer-generated content within collapsing production workflows / John T. Caldwell -- User-created content and everyday cultural practice : lessons from YouTube / Jean Burgess -- Architectures of participation : fame, television, and Web 2.0 / James Bennett.