Thinking through television / Ron Lembo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lembo, Ron, author.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies.

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

Television broadcasting.

Television viewers--United States.

Television viewers.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

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

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

OCLC:

475870818