ABSTRACT
Television should now be seen, not in isolation, but as one of a number of information and communication technologies, occupying domestic time and space alongside the video-recorder, the computer and the telephone, as well as the Walkman, the answering-machine, the stereo and the radio. In what follows many of the empirical and theoretical references are to work within the field of television studies. While this focus is necessary, given the emphasis in recent years on television within the overall study of communications, our overall objective is to re-contextualize the study of television in a broader framework.
