1 Introduction 2 Television and everyday life 4 Transitions and change 5 Television’s personal meanings: companionship, guilt and social interaction 6 Video and technology in the home 7 The retired and elderly audiences 8 Gender and television 9 Television violence and other controversies 10 Conclusions
David Gauntlett is Lecturer in Social Communications at the
Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. He is the
author of Moving Experiences: Understanding Television's Influences
and Effects and Video Critical: Children, The Environment and Media
Power, and edits the website www.theory.org.uk.
Annette Hill is Senior Lecturer in Mass Media at the Centre for
Communication and and Information Studies, University of
Westminister. She is the author of Shocking Entertainment: Viewer
Response to Violent Movies and is editor of the journal
Framework.
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