Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ιστορία και Φιλοσοφία της Επιστήμης και της ΤεχνολογίαςLibrary of the School of Science
Author:
Grigoriadis Grigorios
Supervisors info:
Αριστοτέλης Τύμπας, Καθηγητής, Ιστορία και Φιλοσοφία της Επιστήμης, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
ΘόδωροςΑραμπατζής, Καθηγητής
Στάθης Αραποστάθης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής
Original Title:
Σχέση Αναλογικού-Ψηφιακού στην περίπτωση της Tηλεόρασης: Αναδεικνύοντας συσχετισμούς τεχνικών και κοινωνικών σχέσεων
Translated title:
Analog-Digital connection in the case of Television: Highlighting correlations of technical and social connection
Summary:
The thesis presents research on the social dimension of the transition from analog to digital technology of terrestrial television transmission in Greece. It covers the period between 2003 and 2018. Using methods and tools from the interdisciplinary field Science, Technology, Society (STS), it elaborates on the two-way flow between the technical and the social. While presenting the rationale of the EU political push of this transition, it introduces to the popular assumption about the inherent technical superiority of the digital. This assumption is, however, challenged by evidence regarding the terrestrial digital transmission in Greece, which resulted in social injustices. More specifically, the sources studied suggest that better reception of the digital signal at the cities meant, at the same time, total loss of the signal in remote/peripheral locations. The population that suffered from such loss was in the order of half a million.
Main subject category:
Science
Keywords:
digital signal, television, Greece, transition, social exclusion
