| Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience Contributor(s): Kubey, Robert (Author), Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805805524 ISBN-13: 9780805805529 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 302.234 |
| LCCN: 89-38679 |
| Lexile Measure: 1490 |
| Series: Routledge Communication |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.96" W x 9.38" (1.52 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |