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Book Synopsis
Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about.
  • Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon
  • Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner
  • Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production)


Trade Review
"An invaluable book; the author knows a very great deal about television in a global sense and writes with a huge amount of infectious enthusiasm." Ian Mowatt, Glasgow Caledonian University

Table of Contents
Introduction.

1. Audiences.

2. Technology.

3. Programmes.

4. Quality Television.

5. News.

6.Television, Politics, and Impartiality.

7. Offensive Television.

8. Children, Regulation, and the 'Effects' of Television.

9. Television's Uncertain Future.

Postscript: "Don't Ask What does People Harm. Ask what Does Them Good".

Notes.

Bibliography.

Consuming Television

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      Book details

      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 27 February 1997
      ISBN-13 9780631202349
      978-0631202349
      ISBN-10 063120234X
      Also in:
      Media, entertainment, information Television Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Consuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about.
      • Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon
      • Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner
      • Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production)


      Trade Review
      "An invaluable book; the author knows a very great deal about television in a global sense and writes with a huge amount of infectious enthusiasm." Ian Mowatt, Glasgow Caledonian University

      Table of Contents
      Introduction.

      1. Audiences.

      2. Technology.

      3. Programmes.

      4. Quality Television.

      5. News.

      6.Television, Politics, and Impartiality.

      7. Offensive Television.

      8. Children, Regulation, and the 'Effects' of Television.

      9. Television's Uncertain Future.

      Postscript: "Don't Ask What does People Harm. Ask what Does Them Good".

      Notes.

      Bibliography.

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