1st one

Liveness 

The event is actually being transmitted as it happens.

Immediacy

Viewers’ feelings of connection to TV. “I feel like I'm there/right there with it.” It makes the viewer feel connected to the event or person on screen rather than like they are watching something distant. 

Intimacy

“This feels personal and close to me.” TV can make a viewer feel like they are having a personal or familiar interaction with what they're watching.

Flow (long, medium, short range)

This is the way television is experienced as a continuous stream of programming, rather than as one single, self-contained story.

Long-range flow

The flow of television across a long period of time, such as an entire day or schedule.

Medium-range flow

The flow within or between programs over a shorter period, such as an evening's lineup or a particular block of programming.

Short-range flow

The flow within a single program or even within a particular segment.

Imagined community

A group of people who feel they belong to the same community or nation even though they will never personally know most others in that group. Benedict Anderson argued that members of a nation don't know most of their fellow citizens, but they can still imagine themselves as part of the same community.

Seriality

Telling a story or presenting a program as a series of episodes that continue over time days, weeks, months, or even years. During radio, before TV, this was a major way of keeping audiences coming back because the story didn't end in one episode.

Mass media

Refers to forms of media that are designed to communicate information, entertainment, or messages to large numbers of people.

Mass culture

Culture that is mass-produced and distributed to large numbers of people, especially ordinary working-class audiences.

Popular culture

The culture is created around the tastes, interests, and everyday lives of ordinary people, rather than culture produced mainly for an educated or elite audience.

Physical Unity

Broadcasting connected people across large physical distances. This connects to TV history as radio signals could reach people in different cities, regions, and eventually across the country. People didn't have to be physically together to experience the same program.

Cultural Unity

Broadcasting gave people shared entertainment, stories, information, and experiences. When millions of people listened to the same programs, they developed some of the same cultural references and ideas.

Linguistic Unity

Broadcasting helped create a sense of shared language and ways of speaking because people across different regions were hearing the same voices and forms of speech.