Television and the Quality of Life
eBook - ePub

Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Television and the Quality of Life by Robert Kubey,Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. CHAPTER 1 A Way to Think About Information Reception
  8. CHAPTER 2 The Problem of Leisure
  9. CHAPTER 3 The Limits of Television Research
  10. CHAPTER 4 Charting a New Course: The Experience Sampling Method
  11. CHAPTER 5 The Use and Experience of Television in Everyday Life
  12. CHAPTER 6 Television and the Quality of Family Life
  13. CHAPTER 7 Viewing as Cause, as Effect, and as Habit
  14. CHAPTER 8 The Causes and Consequences of Heavy Viewing
  15. CHAPTER 9 A Brief Review of Major Findings: Reclaiming the Idea of Media Effects
  16. CHAPTER 10 Television and the Structuring of Experience
  17. Appendices
  18. References
  19. Author Index
  20. Subject Index