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Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Console-ing Passions) (edit title/settings)

by Anna McCarthy (Author) (edit contributors)

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Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping... read more

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We tend to think of the location of the TV screen as the home, or even the living room, but this book is about television's presence in the routine locations we move through when we leave the house - the store, the waiting room, the bar, the train station, the airport.

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