Broadcast Television Effects in A Remote Community (Routledge Communication Series)

Synopsis

This book reports findings from a major, multidisciplinary 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 introduction 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, the researchers who wrote this book collected data by observing the island's young children in classroom settings, and during free-play. In addition to these observations they asked the children's teachers to rate their students' behavior, and invited the children to explain to them what leisure time activities they engaged in. With the data they were able to amass on these key variables they have assembled and coded the results into baseline measures central to the study. Once TV had arrived, they collected data annually on the key dependent measures to determine if the introduction of broadcast TV had any discernible influence on the behavior of the children.

Copyright:

2002

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781135652692

Related ISBNs:

9781410604002, 9780805837353, 9780805837353, 9780415761666, 9780415761666

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/15/20

Copyrighted By:

Tony Charlton, Barrie Gunter, Andrew Hannan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts, Communication

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Tony Charlton

Edited by:

Barrie Gunter

Edited by:

Andrew Hannan