ABSTRACT
As a TV provides service for every member of the family and is a shared entertainment machine, it is deservedly granted a conspicuous space in the home. In this sense, the TV is the focal point of the domestic geometrical space, a focal point of the modern home that is created by the TV – indeed, the hub of the home is where the TV is placed. People have the freedom to decide what to do while sitting in front of a TV, and there is no mechanism binding them to it. They may quickly throw themselves into various televised scenes, and may quickly pull themselves out of them – they can even keep alternating between the televised world and the real world. The extent of one's knowledge about a certain event is not determined by their propinquity to its site. People in Beijing or Paris sometimes know as much about what happens in Tokyo as Tokyoites.
