Television and the Quality of Life
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Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

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Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

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Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this unusual book explores whether television is a boon or a detriment to family life; how people feel and think before, during, and after television viewing; what causes television habits to develop; and what causes heavy viewing -- and what heavy viewing causes -- in the short and long term. Television and the Quality of Life also compares the viewing experience cross-nationally using samples from the United States, Italy, Canada, and Germany -- and then interprets the findings within a broad theoretical and historical framework that considers how information use and daily activity contribute to individual, familial, societal, and cultural development.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136691461
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. CHAPTER 1 A Way to Think About Information Reception
  8. CHAPTER 2 The Problem of Leisure
  9. CHAPTER 3 The Limits of Television Research
  10. CHAPTER 4 Charting a New Course: The Experience Sampling Method
  11. CHAPTER 5 The Use and Experience of Television in Everyday Life
  12. CHAPTER 6 Television and the Quality of Family Life
  13. CHAPTER 7 Viewing as Cause, as Effect, and as Habit
  14. CHAPTER 8 The Causes and Consequences of Heavy Viewing
  15. CHAPTER 9 A Brief Review of Major Findings: Reclaiming the Idea of Media Effects
  16. CHAPTER 10 Television and the Structuring of Experience
  17. Appendices
  18. References
  19. Author Index
  20. Subject Index