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Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future by Denise Mann (review)

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Reviewed by: Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future by Denise Mann Allison Perlman (bio) Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future edited by Denise Mann. Rutgers University Press. 2014. $76.50 hardcover; $26.96 paper. 306pages. To read much of the scholarship of the past decade on television’s transformations in the digital era is to be invited to see new possibilities—aesthetic, cultural, political, social—in the displacement of “old” television by “new.” As Amanda Lotz has argued, for example, television “as we knew it”—as a mass medium, viewed in the home, addressing a broad and diverse audience—is being revolutionized through increased viewer control over the where, the when, and the what of viewing.1 Technological changes, along with the remarkable expansion of media outlets, as Jason Mittell has demonstrated, have facilitated the growth of a new mode of narratively complex television programs.2 Television in the digital era, according to Sharon Marie Ross, is premised

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Reviewed by: Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future by Denise Mann Allison Perlman (bio) Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future edited by Denise Mann. Rutgers University Press. 2014. $76.50 hardcover; $26.96 paper. 306pages. To read much of the scholarship of the past decade on television’s transformations in the digital era is to be invited to see new possibilities—aesthetic, cultural, political, social—in the displacement of “old” television by “new.” As Amanda Lotz has argued, for example, television “as we knew it”—as a mass medium, viewed in the home, addressing a broad and diverse audience—is being revolutionized through increased viewer control over the where, the when, and the what of viewing.1 Technological changes, along with the remarkable expansion of media outlets, as Jason Mittell has demonstrated, have facilitated the growth of a new mode of narratively complex television programs.2 Television in the digital era, according to Sharon Marie Ross, is premised

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