Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experiences - Couverture rigide

Kubey, Robert; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihalyi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805805524 ISBN 13 : 9780805805529

Editeur : Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Kubey, Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805805524
• ISBN 13: 9780805805529
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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