Mature audiences : television in the lives of elders

Author(s)

• Riggs, Karen E.

Bibliographic Information

Mature audiences : television in the lives of elders

Karen E. Riggs

（Communications, media, and culture）

Rutgers University Press, c1998

• : cloth
• : paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The author challenges traditional ideas about older viewers as passive, vulnerable audiences for television, telling the stories of 70 elder Americans who have worked television into their lives in specific and practical ways.

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Details

• NCID: BA38525281
• ISBN:
  • 081352539X
  • 0813525403
• LCCN: 97049866
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 197 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1064.U5
  • DC21 : 306.4/85/0846
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Television and the aged -- United States
  • LCSH : Mass media and the aged -- United States
  • LCSH : Aged -- United States -- Psychology
  • LCSH : Aged -- Communication -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21956438