Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television

by Gregory J. Downey

This engaging study traces the development of closed captioning--a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from decades-long developments in cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf. Gregory J. Downey discusses how digital computers, coupled with human mental and physical skills, made live television captioning possible. Downey's survey includess the hidden information workers who mediate between live audiovisual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801887100
• ISBN13: 9780801887109
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"