Broadcast television effects in a remote community
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Broadcast television effects in a remote community
(LEA's communication series)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 149-160
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary study of the impact of broadcast television on the remote island community of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Broadcast television was introduced to the island for the first time in March 1995. This introduction represented a major event on the island, whose only televisual experience had been through video.
In the years leading up to the introduction of TV, the researchers who wrote this book collected data by observing the island's young children in classroom settings, and during free-play. In addition to these observations they asked the children's teachers to rate their students' behavior, and invited the children to explain to them what leisure time activities they engaged in. With the data they were able to amass on these key variables they have assembled and coded the results into baseline measures central to the study. Once TV had arrived, they collected data annually on the key dependent measures to determine if the introduction of broadcast TV had any discernible influence on the behavior of the children.
Table of Contents
Contents: P. Lawrence, Foreword. Preface. T. Charlton, B. Gunter, Background of the Research Project. A.H. Schulenburg, "They Are as if a Family": Community and Informal Social Controls on St. Helena. B. Gunter, The Nature of Television Output. A. Hannan, The Impact of Television on Children's Leisure. B. Gunter, C. Panting, T. Charlton, D. Coles, Relationships Between Children's Viewing Patterns and Social Behavior. T. Charlton, R. Davie, B. Gunter, C. Thomas, Children's Social Behavior Before and After the Availability of Broadcast Television: Findings From Three Studies in a Naturalistic Setting. B. Gunter, T. Charlton, D. Charlton, Where Next?
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