Television as a social issue

Author(s)

• Oskamp, Stuart

Bibliographic Information

Television as a social issue

Stuart Oskamp, editor

（Applied social psychology annual / Leonard Bickman, editor, 8）

Sage Publications, c1988

• pbk

Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

How are women and ethnic minorities portrayed on television? What is the effect upon viewers of violence on television? Can television play a positive role in society? How should the industry be regulated? These are just some of the controversial questions posed by media researchers, programmers, critics and policy-makers in this important volume. The contributors ask probing and urgent questions about the role of television in today's society. This volume will be essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in mass communication, psychology, sociology, policy studies and women's studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Phyllis A Katz PART ONE: THE CONTEXT OF TELEVISION Introduction - Stuart Oskamp Six Great Ideas that Television is Missing - Gloria Steinem Realities of Television News Programming - Forrest Sawyer Television and the Construction of Reality - Ira Glasser Constraints on the Television Industry - Donald D Wear, Jr The Public Context of Debates about Television and Children - Ellen Wartella The Television Environment - Timothy E Wirth Cultivating the Wasteland How Can Television Serve the Public Interest? - Thomas S Rogers PART TWO: ROLE PORTRAYALS Some Uncommon Television Images and the Drench Hypothesis - Bradley S Greenberg The Strong-Soft Woman - Diana M Meehan Manifestations of the Androgyne in Popular Media Changes in Women's Roles on Television - CBS Television Network Multicultural Role Portrayals on Television as a Social Psychological Issue - Gordon L Berry How the Networks Monitor Program Content - Alice M Henderson and Helaine Doktori Program Standards for the CBS Television Network - CBS/Broadcast Group PART THREE: TELEVISION VIOLENCE Television Violence and Aggression - Jonathan L Freedman What the Evidence Shows Television and Aggression Once Again - J Ronald Milavsky Some Hazards of Growing Up in a Television Environment - Jerome L Singer and Dorothy G Singer Children's Aggression and Restlessness Beyond Cartoon Killings - Carol Tavris Comments on Two Overlooked Effects of Television Television Research and Social Policy - Seymour Feshbach Some Perspectives PART FOUR: PROSOCIAL VALUES AND TELEVISION The Functions of Television - Charles Winick Life Without the Big Box Prosocial Content on Prime-Time Television - Barbara Lee Television from a Mindful/Mindless Perspective - Ellen J Langer and Alison Piper Television and the Development of Empathy - Norma Deitch Feshbach Creating Positive Television Images - Halford H Fairchild PART FIVE: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND FUTURE VISIONS OF TELEVISION When Social Scientists Cooperate with Broadcasting - Aimee Dorr Social Science Research and Media Policy Issues - Philip A Harding A Question of Fit The Relationship Between Broadcasters and Researchers - Elihu Katz Making Research Useful to Policymakers - John Abel Today's Audiences, Tomorrow's Media - George Comstock Programming Diversity and the Future of Television - W Russell Neuman An Empty Cornucopia? Future Visions of Television - John P Blessington PART SIX: EPILOGUE AND OVERVIEW On Conceptualizing Media Effects - Elihu Katz Another Look

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Details

• NCID: BA04329544
• ISBN:
  • 0803930690
  • 0803930704
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Newbury Park, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: 390 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 361.54
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00963694