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Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience
by Kubey, Robert
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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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- Routledge Brand
- Apr 1, 1990 Pub Date:
- 0805805524 ISBN-10:
- 9780805805529 ISBN-13:
- English Language
- 9.5 in * 1.25 in * 6.5 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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