[Air-L] Liz Rodwell visits the CaMP virtual reading group

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Liz Rodwell will be talking about her book, Push the Button: Interactive
Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan, in two weeks --
March 29th.

She has asked us to read chapter 5.  Please read as much as you can, but do
feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.

The reading can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XZ5QlKe9-KVb7fbE3vpTMNlm4qvfh7_X/view?usp=sharing


PLEASE NOTE:  The reading group meets from 12-1 pm EST
on the last Friday of the month in a semester based US-American academic
calender.


The meeting will be 12-1 pm  EST on March 29th and can be
reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb: In *Push the Button*, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over
what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media
conglomerates took on independent media professionals developing
interactive forms from new media. Rodwell argues that at the dawn of a
potentially transformative moment in television history, content
conservatism has triumphed over technological innovation. Despite the
ambition and idealism of Japanese TV professionals and independent
journalists, corporate media worked to squelch interactive broadcast
projects such as smartphone-playable television and live-streamed and open
press conferences before they caught on. Instead, interactive programming
in the hands of major TV networks retained the structure and qualities of
most other television and maintained conventional barriers between
audiences and the actual space of broadcast. Despite their lack of success,
the innovators behind these experiments nonetheless sought to expand the
possibilities for mass media, national identity, and open journalism.