Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television's prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding of self and family....
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television's pr...
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives, and cultural forms are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that show the world as we might never see it in real life. How Television Shapes Our Worldview brings together a diverse set of scholars, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks to interrogate the ways...
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the worl...
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that shape and reflect the world and our role in it. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation brings together a diverse group of scholars to investigate the role television plays in shaping our understanding of self and family....
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television s pr...
Kathleen M. Ryan Noah J. Springer Deborah A. Macey
This book analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Television remains the dominant medium for viewers to consume narratives which educate viewers about themselves, their worlds, and their relationships. Television narratives are powerful socializing agents which both define and limit the types of acceptable interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, romantic partners, family members, communities, and nations. This book is written by a diverse group of...
This book analyzes both how complex, interpersonal relationships were depicted in and were influenced by television programs in the first decade of th...
Deborah A. Macey Kathleen M. Ryan Noah J. Springer
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives, and cultural forms are not simply entertainment, but powerful socializing agents that show the world as we might never see it in real life. How Television Shapes Our Worldview brings together a diverse set of scholars, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks to interrogate the ways...
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the worl...
