Provocation: The silent cost of television studies?

This ‘Provocation’ explores potential barriers to access in Television Studies in the UK. I consider the rising costs of studying television, and the ways in which this might impact upon different groups in higher education. I propose that unacknowledged pressure may be placed upon scholars and students already experiencing precarity and that, in turn, this has the potential to prevent or discourage engagement in Television Studies. Relatedly, I ask whether a complex financial burden of studying television has implications for the intellectual coherence of the discipline, leading to fragmentation.