Television and the quality of life : how viewing shapes everyday experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Kubey, Robert William, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1990. |
| Description: | xvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Communication Communication (Hillsdale, N.J.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1021673 |
| 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0805805524 080580708X |