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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Table of Contents:
- A way to think about information reception
- The problem of leisure
- The limits of television research
- Charting a new course: the experience sampling method
- The use and experience of television in everyday life
- Television and the quality of family life
- Viewing as cause, as effect, and as habit
- The causes and consequences of heavy viewing
- A brief review of major findings: reclaiming the idea of media effects
- Television and the structuring of experience.