Thinking through television /

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"This book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use of television by working people, it develops a unique theoretical approach integrating cultural sociology, postmodernism, and the literature of media effects...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lembo, Ron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States.
Television viewers > United States.
Télévision > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Téléspectateurs > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects
Television viewers
Soziologie
Fernsehen
Kijkgedrag.
Culturele aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
United States
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Conceptions of television use: Social theory
  • Social science
  • Cultural studies
  • Part II. Reconceptualising television use: Sociality and the problem of the subject
  • Components of a viewing culture
  • Part III. Documenting the viewing culture: Methodology and the turn to television
  • The practice of viewing
  • A typology of use
  • Conclusion: the politics of television reconsidered.

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