Television In Society

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351486640
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television in Society written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is television a cultural wasteland, or a medium that has brought people more great art, music, dance, and drama than any previous media? How do we study and interpret television? What are the effects of television on individuals and society, and how do we measure them? What is the role of television in our political and economic life? Television in Society explores these issues in considering how television both reflects and affects society.The book is divided into two sections. The first focuses on programming and deals with commercials, ceremonial events, important series (such as ""MASH"" and ""Lou Grant""), significant programs (a production of Brave New World on television), and the images of police on the medium. The second part of the book deals with important issues and topics related to the medium: the impact of television violence, values found on television, the impact of television on education, the significance of new technological developments, and the always thorny issue of freedom of the press. The articles are drawn together by a brilliant introductory essay by Arthur Asa Berger, who examines television as culture.

Author : Patrick Barwise
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849207208
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and Its Audience written by Patrick Barwise and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1988-11-24 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by two leading experts takes a fresh look at the nature of television, starting from an audience perspective. It draws on over twenty years of research about the audience in the United States and Britain and about the many ways in which television is funded and organized around the world. The overall picture which emerges is of: a medium which is watched for several hours a day but usually at only a low level of involvement; an audience which views mainly for relaxation but which actively chooses favourite programmes; a flowering of new channels but with no fundamental change in what or how people watch; programmes costing millions to produce but only a few pennies to view; a wide range of programme types apparently similar to the range of print media but with nothing like the same degree of audience 'segmentation'; a global communication medium of dazzling scale, speed, and impact but which is slow at conveying complex information and perhaps less powerful than generally assumed. The book is packed with information and insights yet is highly readable. It is unique in relating so many of the issues raised by television to how we watch it. There is also a highly regarded appendix on advertising, as well as technical notes, a glossary, and references for further reading.

Author : Jonathan Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113525348X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television Entertainment written by Jonathan Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded in everyday life, in how we think, what we think and care about, and who we think and care about it with. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? How is it political and how does it address us as citizens? What powers does it hold, and what powers do we have over it? Or, for that matter, what is television these days, in an era of rapidly developing technologies, media platforms, and globalization? Written especially for students, Television Entertainment addresses these and other key questions that we regularly ask, or should ask. Jonathan Gray offers a lively and dynamic, thematically based overview with examples from recent and current television, including Lost, reality television, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, political satire, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing, soaps, and 24.

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272637
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big World, Small Screen written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, ethnic and sexual minorities, and women. Many in these groups are addicted to television, although they are not the principal audiences sought by commercial TV distributors because they are not the most lucrative markets for advertisers. This important book illustrates the power of television in stereotyping the elderly, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians, and the institutionalized and, thus, in contributing to the self-image of many viewers. They go on to consider how television affects social interaction, intellectual functioning, emotional development, and attitudes (toward family life, sexuality, and mental and physical health, for example). They illustrate the medium's potential to teach and inform, to communicate across nations and cultures?and to induce violence, callousness, and amorality. Parents will be especially interested in what they say about television viewing and children. Finally, they offer suggestions for research and public policy with the aim of producing programming that will enrich the lives of citizens all across the spectrum. Nine psychologists, members of the Task Force on Television and Society appointed by the American Psychological Association, have collaborated on Big World, Small Screen.

Author : Conrad Phillip Kottak
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315421925
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prime-Time Society written by Conrad Phillip Kottak and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior; updated edition has a new introduction bringing the study up to the present.

Author : David Simon
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429900954
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homicide written by David Simon and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl. Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition—which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs—revives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience.

Author : Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781414402222
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television in American Society written by Laurie Collier Hillstrom and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview of the aspects of television broadcasting and their impact on American society.

Author : Beth Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441141316
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television, Sex and Society written by Beth Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers to establish the cultural worth of their texts in series such as Shameless, The Tudors and True Blood. The contributions draw attention to shifting representations of sex on television away from the authoritarian state and patriarchal order, toward a more democratic form of representation. As a significant and under-represented aspect of contemporary television studies, this is the first full-length academic collection to consider the wide-ranging representations of sex in society on contemporary television.

Author : Gary W. Selnow
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society's Impact on Television written by Gary W. Selnow and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer-producer and network boundaries -- The network programmers -- Suits and censors : senior network executives and standards editors -- Government influence on television content -- "Public" interest groups and the interested public -- Advertiser influence on television content -- Technology and television content -- Content solutions -- Public expectations.

Author : Peter Dahlgren
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803989238
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and the Public Sphere written by Peter Dahlgren and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broad-ranging text, Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism. These issues are linked to the potential of the audience to interpret or resist messages, and to construct its own meanings. What does a realistic understanding of the functioning and the capabilities of television imply for citizenship and democracy in a mediated age?