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Title

Teletext in Europe : from the analog to the digital era / edited by Hallvard Moe and Hilde Van den Bulck.

Publication

Göteborg : Nordicom, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Moe, Hallvard.
• Bulck, Hilde van den.

Description

249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book is about teletext: a ?broadcast service using several otherwise unused scanning lines (vertical blanking intervals) between frames of TV pictures to transmit information from a central data base to receiving television sets?. To the contributors to this book and possibly to many readers, this technical definition will feel out of place as it obscures the rich history of a formidable if forgotten medium. Nevertheless, it is the basic technology of teletext that sets it apart from other media and that, in part, has been the basis for much of what did and did not happen to teletext in terms of policy, institutional setting, content, users and scholarly interest. Many contributions in this book will provide similar definitions, but mostly as a stepping-stone to explore all that has so far been left unsaid by this technical description. It is this gap in our knowledge of teletext in Europe that this book aims to fill.

Subject

• Teletext systems > Europe
• Teletext systems
• Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Teletext in Europe : an introductory guide to the book / Hilde Van den Bulck & Hallvard Moe -- Perspectives -- Why media researchers don't care about teletext / Hilde Van den Bulck & Hallvard Moe -- Is it just text? / Raquel Meyers -- What is teletext? a phenomenological description / Lars Nyre -- Cases -- Teletext in flanders : a medium hiding in plain sight / Hilde Van den Bulck -- Back to the future : what teletext's past tells us about the future relationship between public service media and publishers in Switzerland / Manuel Puppis, Samuel Studer & Edzard Schade -- The old reliable : teletext as a survivor of digitalization of TV in Finland / Marko Ala-Fossi -- Super teletext : a social shaping of teletext as locating newness in a media convergence future / Pernilla Severson -- The Icelandic public service broadcaster RÜV's teletext service textavarpið and media change / Ole J. Mjøs -- Freedom of information and divides in the digital age : teletext and internet use in Norway / Hallvard Moe -- Teletext as a new media promoter in Croatia : surviving war and transition / Mato Brautović & Tena Perišin -- The Italian way to teletext : the history, structure and role of televideo rai / Luca Barra & Gabriele Balbi -- Teletext and videotex in France : from innovative social media to objects of cultural memory / Lyombe Eko -- Postscript : lessons from analyses of a forgotten medium / Hallvard Moe & Hilde Van den Bulck -- Authors' bios.

ISBN

• 9789187957208 (pbk.)
• 9187957205 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2016383023

OCLC

• 946103397
• SCSB-10953660

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library