Television, Volume 5

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Toby Miller
Psychology Press, 2003 - Performing Arts - 2048 pages

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.

 

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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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