On Television

A surprising bestseller when it was first published in France, this little book by Pierre Bourdieu offers a brilliant critique of television and its consequences for social and political life. Rather than simply denouncing television as a misrepresentation or trivialization of the social world, Bourdieu shows that television journalists are part of a journalistic field that shapes their actions and imposes a particular vision on the public, a vision that is grounded in the very structure of the journalistic field and that, through a variety of mechanisms specific to this field, produces a general disenchantment with politics.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• ISBN: 9780745652160
• Number of pages: 104
• Weight: 170g
• Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 9 mm