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telespectator en · NOUN

Etymology

From tele- + spectator.

Meanings

1. One who witnesses an event on television.
   • The "telespectator" never receives the kinds of sutured transmissino conventionalized by Hollywood film, as well as expected of telecommunications by Freud. 1994, Richard Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere:
   • The telespectator has no material object to watch or possess, only the experience of watching fleeting images on the screen. 2009, Paul Connerton, How Modernity Forgets, page 83:
   • All these things that affect the psychology of the telespectator, must also affect the dramaturgical techniques of those who create the telecast. 1952, Films in Review, volume 3, page 505:

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