Marina Krcmar

Living Without the Screen

Causes and Consequences of Life without Television

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Living Without the Screen provides a current, distinctive, and important look at how personal choices on media are made, and how those choices reflect more broadly on media's place in today's society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780805863284
• ISBN-10: 0805863281
• Artikelnr.: 23597070

Autorenporträt

Marina Krcmar is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department of Wake Forest University. Her research focuses on children, adolescents, and the media, and her most recent research has examined the effect of violent video games on adolescents and the role of media consumption in adolescent risk-taking.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter Page
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 1 Living Without Television
Chapter 2 Sample and Method
Chapter 3 How Nonviewers Gave Up Television
Chapter 4 Attitudes Toward Living Without Television
Chapter 5 What is Television?
Part II: Television as Content
Chapter 6 Keeping Out Televised Sex and Violence
Chapter 7 Minimizing Consumerism
Chapter 8 Politics and Civic Engagement
Part III: Television as Medium
Chapter 9 Autonomous Children
Chapter 10 Time Use
Chapter 11 Encouraging Creativity
Chapter 12 Engaging in Real Life
Part IV: Television as Industry
Chapter 13 Choosing to Be Different
Chapter 14 Battling the Industry
Chapter 15 Conclusion