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
（Communication / a series of volumes edited by Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryant）
Routledge, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-267) and indexes
Reprint. Originally published: Hillsdale : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents: A Way to Think About Information Reception. The Problem of Leisure. The Limits of Television Research. Charting a New Course: The Experience Sampling Method. The Use and Experience of Television in Everyday Life. Television and the Quality of Family Life. Viewing as Cause, as Effect, and as Habit. The Causes and Consequences of Heavy Viewing. A Brief Review of Major Findings: Reclaiming the Idea of Media Effects. Television and the Structuring of Experience.
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