The Synchronized Society : : Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet / / Randall Patnode.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Patnode, Randall,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. The Bizarre Model of Broadcasting --; 2. The Evolution of Time Consciousness --; 3. Roots of the Synchronized Society --; 4. The Rationalization of Radio --; 5. The Synchronized Society --; 6. Learning to Love the Clock --; 7. Television and Latter-Day Synchrony --; 8. The Decline of Synchrony --; 9. The Arrhythmic Society --; 10. From Clock to Click --; 11. Moving Ahead While Looking Backward --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978820135; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319094; 9783111318127; 9783110791303
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978820135
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Randall Patnode.

The Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the 20th century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate today. Broadcasting grew out of the latent desire by 19th century industrialists, political thinkers, and social reformers to tame an unruly society by controlling how people used their time. The idea manifested itself in the form of the broadcast schedule, a managed flow of information and entertainment that required audiences to be in a particular place – usually the home – at a particular time and helped to create “water cooler” moments, as audiences reflected on their shared media texts. Audiences began disconnecting from the broadcast schedule at the end of the 20th century, but promoters of social media and television services still kept audiences under control, replacing the schedule with surveillance of media use. Author Randall Patnode offers compelling new insights into the intermingled roles of broadcasting and industrial/post-industrial work and how Americans spend their time.