Media, Home, and Family examines how parents make decisions regulating media use and how their media practices relate to other aspects of contemporary family life. Based on more than three years of extensive ethnographic audience research, the book looks at a very broad cross-section of American families, focusing on how families negotiate a sense of identity collectively and how the media plays a significant role in the process.

"Media, Home, and Family" examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how their media practices relate to other aspects of contemporary family life. Based on more than three years of extensive ethnographic audience research, the book looks at a very broad cross-section of American families, focusing on how families negotiate a sense of identity collectively, and how the media plays a significant role in the process.