Television

Simultaneous Global Experiences

Sharing in Sports Events

Surpassing Linguistic Boundaries

Can enrich or impoverish

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The Televisual Sublime

• Underlying fears, hopes, and excitement about a new technology

• Beauty, entertainment, loved, emotionally connected

Television (programming) combines both positive and negative influences, responses, and emotions

2010-2013• Unidirectionality• Box/Equipment based Viewing• Post-network television • Viewer agency• Internet-streaming – BBC• Russian move to re-introduce State-Ownership