Watching TV Is Not Required: Thinking About Media and Thinking About Thinking

ISBN-13: 9780415994866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str.

McGrane Bernard

Opis

This book uses a social worlda "today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of televisiona "as a vehicle for helping awaken students to the true possibilities for learning and their responsibilities inherent in achieving those goals. The book also introduces students to the social construction of reality embedded in the experience of TV. The lead author Barney McGrane is one of the most accomplished and successful teachers of sociology in the United States today and is also the co-author with John Gunderson and the late Inge Bell of the classic book for teaching This Book Is Not Required: An Emotional Survival Manual For Students.

Spis treści

CH 1 – PARENT TV: OUR THIRD PARENT

CH 2 – IDENTITY TV: YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH

CH 3 – REALITY TV: TV IS A PLACE WHERE WE LIVE

CH 4 – CONSUMERISM TV: YOU ARE WHAT YOU WANT

CH 5 – RELATIONSHIP TV: I DON’T REALLY LOVE YOU, I LOVE GORDON’S GIN/JOHN CUSAK

CH 6 – CHILDREN’S TV: SATURDAY MORING GHETTO

CH 7 – MIRROR TV: LOOKING GLASS SELF

Ch 8 – UN-TV: NO TV AND MEDITATION TV