[Commlist] New Book - Online TV by Catherine Johnson

new book, Online TV, published by Routledge: 
https://www.routledge.com/Online-TV-1st-Edition/Johnson/p/book/9781138226883.

Description:
With growth in access to high-speed broadband and 4G, and increased 
ownership of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected television 
sets, the internet has simultaneously begun to compete with and 
transform television. Online TV argues that these changes create the 
conditions for an emergent internet era that challenges the language and 
concepts that we have to talk about television as a medium.
In a wide-ranging analysis, Catherine Johnson sets out a series of 
conceptual frameworks designed to provide a clearer language with which 
to analyse the changes to television in the internet era and to bring 
into focus the power dynamics of the online TV industry.
> From providing definitions of online TV and the online TV industry, to examining the ways in which technology, rights, interfaces and algorithms are used to control and constrain access to audiovisual content, Online TV is a timely intervention into debates about contemporary internet and television cultures. A must-read for any students, scholars and practitioners who want to understand and analyse the ways in which television is intertwining with and being transformed by the internet.

Reviews:
'Online TV offers a comprehensive framework for discerning television's 
expansion to internet distribution and cogently explores how new 
capabilities blend with persistent features to evolve our understanding 
of the medium.'
Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

'When today’s television or media scholar isn’t watching Netflix, BBC 
iPlayer, and co., we should be trying to work out what they represent, 
and how they change or develop our traditional structures of thinking 
about television. Online TV does an amazing job at answering those 
questions, a spectacular account of where we are and how it all matters. 
Required reading for us all.'
Jonathan Gray, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

'In Online TV, Catherine Johnson cuts through the hype of digital 
disruption to provide an immensely valuable set of critical concepts for 
understanding television industries. Covering everything from interfaces 
to infrastructure – and highlighting historical continuities as well as 
changes – this book sets a new agenda for television research.'
Ramon Lobato, RMIT University, Australia

Author:
Catherine Johnson is Professor of Media and Communications at the 
University of Huddersfield. In addition to numerous articles on 
televisio and the screen industries, she is the author of Promotional 
Screen Industries (with Paul Grainge, Routledge, 2015), Branding 
Television (Routledge, 2012) and Telefantasy (BFI, 2005), and the 
co-editor of Transnational Television History (with Andreas Fickers, 
Routledge, 2012) and ITV Cultures (with Rob Turnock, Open UP, 2005).


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