Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to
report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors
examine how people actually use and experience television -- and
how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the
quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of
everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing
and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this
unusual book explores whether television is a boon or a detriment
to family life; how people feel and think before, during, and after
television viewing; what causes television habits to develop; and
what causes heavy viewing -- and what heavy viewing causes -- in
the short and long term. Television and the Quality of Life also
compares the viewing experience cross-nationally using samples from
the United States, Italy, Canada, and Germany -- and then
interprets the findings within a broad theoretical and historical
framework that considers how information use and daily activity
contribute to individual, familial, societal, and cultural
development.
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