1st Edition
Broadcast Television Effects in A Remote Community
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary study of the impact of broadcast television on the remote island community of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Broadcast television was introduced to the island for the first time in March 1995. This introduction represented a major event on the island, whose only televisual experience had been through video. In the years... Read more
Contents: P. Lawrence, Foreword. Preface. T. Charlton, B. Gunter, Background of the Research Project. A.H. Schulenburg, "They Are as if a Family": Community and Informal Social Controls on St. Helena. B. Gunter, The Nature of Television Output. A. Hannan, The Impact of Television on Children's Leisure. B. Gunter, C. Panting, T. Charlton, D. Coles, Relationships Between Children's Viewing Patterns and Social Behavior. T. Charlton, R. Davie, B. Gunter, C. Thomas, Children's Social Behavior Before and After the Availability of Broadcast Television: Findings From Three Studies in a Naturalistic Setting. B. Gunter, T. Charlton, D. Charlton, Where Next?
Biography
Charlton, Tony; Gunter, Barrie; Hannan, Andrew
"...this provacative, naturalistic study by a multidisciplinary trio of British scholars seriously challenges the prevailing American dogma....Broadcast Television offers compelling documentation for this conditional percept that has the potential to mitigate television's culpability by arguing that the atmosphere of an uncoordinated neighborhood watch on the island tempered the lure to indulge in antisocial acts."
—Journal of Communication
