Media effects and beyond : culture, socialization and lifestyles / edited by Karl Erik Rosengren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosengren, Karl Erik.

Series:

Communication and society.

Communication and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media and children.

Lifestyles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music. Seeing the viewer not simply as passive object but as a very active subject, the contributors engage with every aspect of children's, adolescents' and families' use of the media - its character, causes and consequences. Topics explored include media and social mobility; family commumication, and consumer lifestyles. Confronting the two tradit

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Culture, Media and Society: Agency and Structure, Continuity and Change; 2. Sweden and its media scene, 1945-90: A Bird's-eye View; 3. The Media Panel Program (MPP) and Related Research; 4. Media Use Under Structural Change; 5. Looking for Patterns in Lifestyle Behaviours; 6. Models of Change and Stability in Adolescents' Media Use; 7. For Better and for Worse: Effects Studies and Beyond

8. Self-evaluation in an Ecological Perspective: Neighbourhood, Family and Peers, Schooling and Media Use9. Media Use and Social Mobility; 10. Values, Lifestyles and Family Communication; 11. Seven Lifestyles; 12. Late Modernity, Consumer Culture and Lifestyles: Toward a Cognitive-affective Theory; 13. Starting Up; Indices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-87454-5

1-134-87455-3

1-280-22132-1

9786610221325

0-203-99259-8

9780203992593

OCLC:

275351186