Overview

This work reports findings from a major 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 represented a major event on the island, whose only televisual experience had been through video. In the years leading up to the introduction of TV, this work did in-depth interviews with the people at every level of society, adults and children, and assembled and coded the results to give baseline measures. Once TV had arrived, they collected data annually from the island on the key dependent measures.

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Author:   Tony Charlton ,  Barrie Gunter ,  Andrew Hannan ,  P. Lawrence
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780805837353

ISBN 10:   0805837353
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

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?

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...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

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