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Digitalization of Television in Japan. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 212
JungBong Choi characterizes Japan's
introduction of digital broadcasting as a political,
cultural and economic endeavor orchestrated by the
Japanese state and other para-state institutions. In
so doing the author employs a concept
of 'digitalization,' as opposed to “digitization,”
defined as a social, institutional, and discursive
making of digital television. With the analytic
framework established, the author observes how
the identity of television in Japan was renewed as
an apparatus conducive to the acceleration of
an informational capitalism. An innovative study in
the political economy of media, the book brings to
light ways in which digital technologies are
engineered as a key device for socio-economic
reordering. A stimulating appraisal of the
contemorary state, furthermore, it offers a
perspective on the progressive conflation between
state and market, technology and institution, and
cultural discourse and economic planning.
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