Television and the quality of life : how viewing shapes everyday experience / Robert Kubey, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates,
1990.
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| Series: | Communication (Hillsdale, N.J.).
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| Summary: | "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."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 080580708X 9780805807080 0805805524 9780805805529 |