Television, Volume 5Toby Miller Bringing together the most important writings on television in theoretical, historical, empirical and political terms, from the USA and Europe, with significant coverage of other international works, this collection demonstrates television's global significance, as a field of study, to disciplines across both the humanities and social sciences. |
Contents
Uses and gratifications | 1 |
An examination of television motivations and program preferences by Hispanics blacks and whites | 19 |
Age identification social identity gratifications and television viewing | 28 |
Decoding and recording audiences | 43 |
Invisible fictions television audiences paedocracy pleasure | 54 |
The image is gold value the audience commodity and fetishism | 72 |
Active audience theory pendulums and pitfalls | 93 |
Whose stories are they? Fans engagement with soup opera narratives in three sites of fan activity | 100 |
Public television | 183 |
Public service broadcasting the history of a concept | 212 |
New social movement theory and minority language television campaigns | 227 |
Public service TV an endangered species? | 249 |
Community television | 268 |
Making public access television community participation media literacy and the public sphere | 282 |
Localism in Chinese media context an examination of a closed circuit community cable system | 306 |
Privatization | 326 |
Fear TV news and the reality of crime | 122 |
Mothers watching children watching television | 150 |
Televisions unintended audience | 163 |
ISSUES | 181 |
Peaceful evolution the case of television reform in postMao China | 340 |
Equality for the downtrodden freedom for the free changing perspectives on social communication in Central and Eastern Europe | 364 |
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