Television criticism

Television criticism (also called TV criticism or TV reviewing) is the act of writing or speaking about television programming to subjectively evaluate its worth, meaning, and other aspects.[1] It is often found in newspapers, television programs, radio broadcasts, Internet and specialist periodicals and books.

While originally developed to critique content for children, it has been used to critique how various issues and topics are presented on television, including race and feminity.[2][3] Relations with audiences and networks are important to critics, but problems can arise with both.[4]

  1. ^ O'Donnell, Victoria (2017). Television criticism (Third ed.). Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-4833-7769-8. OCLC 1124590352.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Vande Berg, Leah R.; Wenner, Lawrence A.; Gronbeck, Bruce E. (October 2004). "Media Literacy and Television Criticism". American Behavioral Scientist. 48 (2): 219–228. doi:10.1177/0002764204267266. ISSN 0002-7642. S2CID 146670539.
  3. ^ "Multichannel Television and TV Criticism", TV Critics and Popular Culture, I.B.Tauris, pp. 163–196, 2011, doi:10.5040/9780755698028.ch-006, ISBN 978-1-8488-5319-5, retrieved 2021-11-15
  4. ^ Lotz, Amanda D. (2008-01-23). "On "Television Criticism": The Pursuit of the Critical Examination of a Popular Art". Popular Communication. 6 (1): 20–36. doi:10.1080/15405700701746509. ISSN 1540-5702. S2CID 35739447.