New publication: The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion, by Abílio Almeida

The Future of Television: Cultural Trajectories of Media Consumption in the Digital Age of Emotion by Abílio Almeida has just been published. With an afterword by Dominque Wolton and published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis), the book focuses on the phenomena of television and audiences, arguing that ‘television is moving from a singular object, fixed in a certain place, to a social phenomenon distributed across many devices and platforms’. This ‘transforms the experience of audiences, who increasingly demand an “open relationship” with television, since their attention is often distributed across several devices and platforms simultaneously’.

‘In addition to these aspects, it analyses the evolution of television since its inception, the need for a renewed public service 2.0 in tune with our times, the growing dominance of talk shows and infotainment and the new power of television combined with artificial intelligence.’

The author believes that ‘the book will be of interest to television professionals, academics in sociology, media studies and various other fields. ’