The academic lecture (1800–present): Subject, medium and performance1

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Abstract

This chapter explores the lecture as a manifestation of spirit in the 19th century. The transformation of the lecturer into a kind of actor or performer can be readily illustrated in conjunction with an event that is of special importance to the topic of the screen – namely the emergence of broadcast television in the 1950s and 1960s. The chapter considers how, in the age of YouTube, podcast and technology, entertainment, and design (TED) Talks – as well as of contingent academic labor – the ongoing importance of the lecture and the lecturer appears as contested as it is irrefutable. The YouTube lecture, one could also say, finds its exemplary form in the TED Talk, presentations in front of a live audience in which ‘speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can’.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEducation in the Age of the Screen
Subtitle of host publicationPossibilities and Transformations in Technology
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages9-22
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9780429836817
ISBN (Print)9781138323339
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2019

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