Tuning In to Young Viewers – Tannis Margaret MacBeth (Hardback / Hard Cover)

Social Science Perspectives on Television

Media effects – a key area of media studies – is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children’s dependence on television are continually debated. Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a much needed, up-to-date overview of the key topics in television use and effects. It is designed in both style and organization as an upper-level text for courses in communication and psychology and is written by scholars well-known to both fields, in particular for their work concerning media influences. Topics discussed include: diversity on television; television dependence, diagnosis and prevention; television and the socialization of young children; and children’s fear and television.

Author: Tannis Margaret MacBeth
Format: Hardback / Hard Cover
Pages: 288
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