Contemporary Television Trends  (20394)

Degree/study: Degree in Audiovisual communication 
Year: 2nd
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 4 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 100 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalan
Teaching Staff: Ingrid Guardiola Sánchez

1. Presentation of the subject

Study of the forms, images, technologies, speeches and procedures that characterize contemporary television

 

2. Competences to be attained

General skills

Skills in collecting and interpreting relevant data (both within and outside the field of study) so as to be able to form conclusions that includes reflecting on significant social, scientific or ethical subjects.
Capacity for communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions in expert audiences as well as non expert ones.
Capacity for applying knowledge and understanding, as well as skills to solve problems, in new or non familiar environments and in wide contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to their field of study.                                             

Skills in integrating knowledge and confronting complexity, as well as formulating judgments from incomplete or limited information, but that include reflections on social responsibilities and ethics in relation with the application of knowledge and judgments.
Capacity for communicating  conclusions, knowledge and conceptual frameworks in which they are based on, in expert audiences as well as in non-expert ones, and in a clear way and without ambiguities.

Specific skills

To have conscience of the most relevant methods of history interpretation.
Capacity in discerning the history and evolution of photography, film, radio, television, through its aesthetic and industrial proposals.
Social and cultural anthropology of audiovisual languages.
Capacity for the analysis of audiovisual stories in a specific cultural and socio-political conditions.
Capacity for the analysis of structures, contents and styles of television and radio programming.
Skills in communicating knowledge and its interrelation with social sciences and new technologies.

 

3. Contents

Study of the forms, images, technologies, speeches and procedures that characterize contemporary television

 

4. Assessment

1)    Participation in class activities

2)    Individual work

3)    Presentations and demonstrations

 

5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

 

BOURDIEU, P. , Sobre la televisión Barcelona, Anagrama , 1997

BUSTAMANTE, Enrique (coord.), Hacia un nuevo sistema mundial de comunicación. Las industrias culturales en la era digital, Gedisa, 2002, Barcelona

BUSTAMANTE, E., La televisión económica. Financiación, estrategias y mercados, Gedisa, 1999, Barcelona

CALLEJO, J., La audiencia activa. El consumo televisivo: discursos y estrategias, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), 1995, Madrid

CASTELLS, M., La Era de la Información: 1) La Sociedad Red, 1996; 2) El poder de la identidad, 1997; 3) Fin de Milenio,1998., Alianza, Madrid

DEBRAY, R., Vida y muerte de la imagen: Historia de la mirada de Occidente, Ed. Paidós Comunicación, 1994, Barcelona

HARTLEY, J., Los usos de la televisión, Paidós, Barcelona, 200

McLUHAN, M., POWERS, B.R., The Global Village, Oxford University Press, 1989, Oxford

MISSIKA, J.-L. i WOLTON, D., La folle du logis. La télévision dans les sociétes démocratiques, Gallimard, 1983, París

POSTMAN, N., ALSINA KEITH, B., Divertim-nos fins a morir, El discurs públic a l'època del "show-business, Llibre de L'índex, 1990, Badalona

RAMONET, I., La post-televisión, multimedia, Internet y globalización económica, ed. by Ignacio Ramonet, Ed. Icaria, Col. Antrazyt, 2002

RAMONET, I., "La tecnología: revolución o reforma. El caso de la información,
 Hiru, Hondarribia, 2000

SARTORI, G., Homo videns: la sociedad teledirigida, Taurus, 1998, Madrid

SILVERSTONE, R., Televisión y vida cotidiana , Amorrortu, 1996, Buenos Aires

VIRILIO, P. , The Information Bomb, Verso, 2000, Londres

VIRILIO, P. ,The Vision Machine, Indiana University Press, 1994, Bloomington

WOLTON, D., Elogio del gran público : una teoría crítica de la televisión, Gedisa, 1992, Barcelona

WOLTON, D., Internet, i després--? : una teoria crítica sobre els nous media, Pòrtic, 2000, Barcelona

 

5.2. Complementary bibliography

 

A.A.V.V., MÓN-TV, CCCB, Barcelona

A.A.V.V., Cultura Porqueria, CCCB, 2003, Barcelona

ALBERT, P. I TUDESQ, A.-J., Historia de la radio y la televisión, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001, México, D.F.

BAUDRILLARD, J., Cultura y simulacro, Kairós, 1978, Barcelona

CEBRIÁN HERREROS, M., Modelos de televisión: Generalista, temática y convergente con Internet, Paidós, 2004, Barcelona

DEBORD, G., La société du spectacle, Champ Livre, 1967, París

GUBERN, R., Del Bisonte a la realidad virtual, Anagrama, 1996, Barcelona

DIDI-HUMERMAN, G. Devant l'image, Les éd. de Minuit, 1990, París

LESSIG, L., El código y otras leyes del ciberespacio, Taurus, 2001, Madrid

LIPPMANN, W., La opinión pública, 
Langre, 2003, Madrid

MARKER, C., . "A free replay; notes sur Vértigo" in Positif, nº 400.

SINCLAIR, J., Televisión: comunicación global y regionalización, Gedisa, 2000, Barcelona

VILCHES, Lorenzo:, La migración digital, Gedisa, 2001, Barcelona

VIRILIO, P. , The Aesthetics of Disappearance, Semiotext, 1991, New York

VITALES, A., Le régard omniprésent de la video-surveillance, Le Monde Diplomatique, March 1998, París

WALLACE, D.F., Algo supuestamente divertido que nunca volveré a hacer, Mondadori, 2001, Mondadori

 

5.3. Teaching resources

INPUT CATALOGUE http://www.upf.edu/bibtic/es/ccaa/input/inputsp0.html.edu

 

6. Metodology

- Theory classes to explain concepts for the study of forms, images, technologies, speeches and procedures that characterize contemporary television.
- Program fragments viewing in class aimed to the practical analysis in order to develop basic concepts.
- Educational support to carry out the final assignment which is required to pass a part of the subject.

 

7. Planning of activities

Week	Class activity/ lecturer
Week 1	Unit 1: Introduction. Analysis of image significance in the mass media framework 1.1 Television as a language.  Analysis of the image significance and function. The three ages of looking (Debray): logosphere, graphosphere and videosphere.
Week 2	Unit 1: Introduction. Analysis of image significance in the mass media framework 1.2 Television as an instrument. Transversal reading of the technological evolution of the different image captation, record and  broadcasting.
Week 3	Unit 2: Television formats 2.1 Between news and documentaries  2.2 The reality-shows phenomenon.
Week 4	Unit 2: Television formats 2.3 Cultural formats, a local insight 2.4 The increase of serial formats.
Week 5	Tema 3. INPUT file 3.1 Presentation of the final assignment-exercise related to the INPUT file.  3.2 Platform philosophy
Week 6	Tema 3. INPUT file 3.3 Analysis of the image, the format and the context of the anthological programs (Wisemann, Forgacs, Watkins, Berliner, Kossakowsky, Moore..)
Week 7	Tema 3. INPUT file *Analysis of formats and speeches from a selection of television programs from around the world that have participated in the last ten editions.
Week 8	Unit 4.  Television on Internet 4.1The active audience: the web universe 2.0, the P2P community. 4.2  TV platforms on Internet.
Week 9	Unit 4: Television on Internet 4.2 Experimental television and how to make one owns television   Unit 5.  Television in museums 5.1 The audiovisual file: replace the "customized television"? 5.2  Television at the service of art or art at the service of television? 5.3 From Nam June Paik to Chris Marker
Week 10	Unit 5.  Television in museums 5.4 Museum's and cultural centre's televisions 5.5 Some experiences: Món TV, Horitzó TV and Trash culture