Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition (p. vii)
• Foreword (p. xiv)
• Foreword to the Second Edition (p. xvi)
• 1 The Technology and the Society (p. 1)
• 2 Institutions of the Technology (p. 26)
• 3 The Forms of Television (p. 39)
• 4 Programming: Distribution and Flow (p. 77)
• 5 Effects of the Technology and Its Uses (p. 121)
• 6 Alternative Technology, Alternative Uses? (p. 139)
• Notes (p. 158)
• Selected Bibliography (p. 162)
• Index (p. 167)