Television and New Media Audiences

by Ellen Seiter

Book Overview

Why is talk about television forbidden at certain schools? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? Cliches about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, the author explains what audience research tells us about the uses of technologies in the domestic sphere and the classroom,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198711425
• ISBN13: 9780198711421
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"