Paddy Scannell Livres

The book explores the evolution of television from the classic era of the 1950s and 1960s, when families shared a communal viewing experience, to the current landscape of abundant programming options. It examines how the intimate, shared nature of early television has transformed, prompting questions about its relevance and the impact of modern viewing habits on culture and society.

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life . It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.

Traces the historical development of media and communication studies. This book sets out to describe and analyse its formulation in North America and Europe. It is suitable for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of media and communication, cultural studies and sociology.

In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and characters within soundless written texts? How has radio affected voice, talk, music, and singing, and how has it made them public in new ways? And by putting the voice into recordings, to what extent have broadcasting technologies provided a radically new resource for historians? These questions and more are explored in the first three chapters. In the final chapter, Scannell boldly puts into words the inexpressible experience of listening to singing, wherein the glory of the human voice finds its purest expression. This highly original book makes a distinctive intervention by stressing the inherently positive qualities of talk (rather than language) as the basis for communication. Concise and beautifully written, it is suitable for students and scholars of media, communication, and other disciplines across the humanities, as well as general readers with an interest in this fascinating topic.​

Paddy Scannell's Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of 'talk' – and ultimately the meaning of 'being human'. Taking an historical approach, Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far from obviating 20th century new media (radio and television), these old media laid the foundation for today's current technologies (AI and algorithms, for instance). Understanding the importance of these relationships, the book makes the case for recognizing what a religious sensibility might reveal about these technologies and the fundamental differences between a human-made world (which includes broadcasting) and a world that is beyond our grasp. Drawing on the pioneering work of John Durham Peters, the book proposes that communication and love go together, which can be understood in two ways, as a human accomplishment, or a divine gift. Ultimately, the book highlights the essential conundrum of today: do we wish to remain in a human>human world, or are we in the early stages of a humanmachine world, and a world defined by machine Completing a trilogy that began in 2007, this book draws on a lifetime of academic work and the author's personal experience. It will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication who will welcome this highly original and searching examination of love as communication.

Paddy Scannells Buch bietet eine faszinierende, erhellende und sehr gut verständliche Auseinandersetzung mit Medien und Kommunikation. Scannell entwickelt anhand der historischen Entwicklungen in Nordamerika und Europa eine sehr zugängliche, systematische und gleichzeitig differenzierte Analyse der verschiedenen Ansätze der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. Immer wieder schöpft er aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und fordert so insgesamt die Leserinnen und Leser heraus, sich mit Kommunikation und Medien in ihren Gesamtzusammenhängen auseinanderzusetzen. Das international vielfach beachtete Werk des bekannten britischen Wissenschaftlers und Professors für Kommunikationswissenschaft an der University of Michigan liegt nun endlich in deutscher Sprache vor.