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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455360503321

Autore

Lembo Ron

Titolo

Thinking through television / / Ron Lembo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11406-3

0-511-31081-1

0-511-17283-4

0-511-05413-0

0-511-15171-3

0-511-48948-X

1-280-43210-1

0-521-58577-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge cultural social studies

Disciplina

302.23/45/0973

Soggetti

Television broadcasting - Social aspects - United States

Television viewers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part I. Conceptions of television use: Social theory -- Social science -- Cultural studies -- Part II. Reconceptualising television use: Sociality and the problem of the subject -- Components of a viewing culture -- Part III. Documenting the viewing culture: Methodology and the turn to television -- The practice of viewing -- A typology of use -- Conclusion: the politics of television reconsidered.

Sommario/riassunto

This original and engaging book investigates American television viewing habits as a distinct cultural form. Based on an empirical study of the day-to-day use of television by working people, it develops a unique theoretical approach integrating cultural sociology, post modernism and the literature of media effects to explore the way in which people give meaning to their viewing practices. While recognising the power of television, it also emphasises the importance of the social and political factors which affect the lives of individual viewers, showing how the interaction between the two can result in a



disengagement with corporately produced culture at the same time as an appropriation of the images themselves into people's lives.