1. Prismatic Television
Yvette Bogaard 3114805
Margot van der Kroon 3279642
Marnix van de Veen 0116556
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2. Today’s Program
• Introduction
• Television Industry
• Mimetic Texts
• Sociocultural Experience
• Discussion/Example
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3. Introduction
• Prismatic Television?
• Goal: ‘To approach the multifarious reality of television in
order to conceptually bring it within the framework of the
discussion of the public sphere, through without claiming to
exhaust all possible aspects of the medium’
• Discussion instead of Conclusion
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4. Television Industry
• Definitions
• Professionalism
• Political Economy
• ‘The Phatic’
• Public Television
• Commercial Television
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5. Example
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6. Mimetic Televisual Texts
• Mimetic: Imitating
• Polysemic Quality
• Meaning
• Created when viewed
• Social
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7. Changing Meaning
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8. Codes
• Natural
• Technical
• Integrative
• Together determine Realism
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9. Realism
• TV like the real - Verisimilitude
• TV about the real - Veracity
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10. Sociocultural Experience
• Viewers interpret, reflect and interact
• Part of Discourse  Daily life
• Linking Framework
•  We live in a television culture!
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11. Television Shapes and
gives Perspective
• Language, Understanding and Behaviour
• TV Social Commonsense
• TV Ubiquit Physically
• TV  Easy Accesible

12. Pervasive
• TV is everywhere
• Normality of every day life
• Safe Topic
•  Stabilizes powerrelations

13. Fiske: Pleasure in TV
• Active Involvement
• Unconsience Experience, Pastime

14. Translations service
• Recast the Unfamiliar  Safe and Accesible
• Shift in Knowledge (Local  Non-Local)

15. Ideology
• Implicit social knowledge provider
•  Hidden values

16. Newssource and
Trusthworthy
• Position of prominence
•  New Media??

17. Television as Prism
• “Critical political economy”
• Mimetic Televisual texts
• Sociocultural experience

18. Critical Political Economy
• Professionalism
• Political Economy

19. Mimetic Televisual texts
• Construction of Meaning
• Codes
• Realism

20. Sociocultural Experience
• TV is all around
• Defines and shapes our behaviour
• Recasts the unfamilliar

21. Discussion
De grote Donorshow

22. Donorshow

23. • Is the Donorshow a Good Thing?
• Should hoaxes like these be allowed?

24. Questions?